Re: sending function arguments to recursive function calls

[Stefan Monnier]

> Emacs Lisp does not particularly make things clear, IMO.  Common Lisp
> does a pretty good job of helping lexical and dynamic binding cohabit.

Actually, Emacs's lexical-binding variant of Elisp is pretty close to
Common Lisp: the default binding is lexical but you can use dynamic
binding for specific cases.

The difference is that Emacs has to keep the old compatibility mode
where lexical-binding is nil, whereas Common-Lisp never had such a thing.

> Lexical binding was added to Emacs relatively recently.  With time,
> perhaps it and dynamic binding will become better roommates.

When lexical-binding is t, they're very good roomates already.
Hopefully with time, the "lexical-binding = nil" case can be dropped.


        Stefan