Re: Default lexical-binding to t

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
> Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2024 17:39:44 +0800
> 
> Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > It seems that people are forming ideas of how frequent dynamic binding
> > files are by looking at code in active development.  Of course it is
> > rare there.  But user have a lot of old Lisp files that they haven't
> > used for a while.  Some of them, someone will try to use someday.
> 
> It is far too early even to arrive at this conclusion.  I have said it
> before and I'll say it again.  Even actively developed packages on the
> EmacsWiki are still to be amended with lexical binding directives.
> 
>   https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/info%2b.el
>   (Last updated Mon Jan 29 15:53:30 2024 (-0800))

How do you propose to encourage people to convert sooner rather than
later?  If we just wait for that to happen spontaneously, we will wait
forever.