Re: lexical-binding questions

[Stefan Monnier]

>>> Also, in CL, the declare spec is placed at the beginning of the let
>> [...]
>>> Why does it behave differently from CL?
>> Because it forces the interpreter to check for the presence of
>> a `declare' every time it sees a `let', even though it will only find
>> one once per century or so.
>> It's an OK design for a language where there's always going to be
>> a pre-processing of some sort before evaluation but for Emacs's pure
>> naive interpreter it's inconvenient.
> It doesn't seem _that_ inconvenient (or inefficient)...

We could live with it if we had no choice, yes.  But given the fact that
current Elisp already uses (defvar <foo>) for that purpose and that
Elisp has no intention to morph into CL, I think the current design
makes a lot more sense.


        Stefan