Re: [External] : Re: Lexical vs. dynamic: small examples?

[Emanuel Berg]

Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor wrote:

> When `lexical-binding` is not enabled it's still currently
> the only way I know to get a statically scoped let-binding,
> but when `lexical-binding` is enabled you can use:
>
>     (defmacro slet (bindings &rest body)
>       (unless lexical-binding
>         (error "`slet' requires `lexical-binding' to be enabled"))
>       `(funcall
>          (lambda ,(mapcar #'car bindings)
>            ,@body)
>          ,@(mapcar #'cadr bindings)))

"slet" for statically scoped `let'!

But ... if `lexical-binding' has to be enabled anyway then one
can just use `let' anyway?

Good that there is `letd' tho, now static/lexical scope just
has to be made t by default and we're all slet :)

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