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_pfxa on Aug 31, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: We're building the GNU system [pdf]

Elisp is quite old and lacking some modern features like lexical scoping and tail recursion as far as I know. I recall a project for replacing Elisp with Guile: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GuileEmacs

malisper on Aug 31, 2014 [–]

Elisp recently gained optional lexical scoping[0].

[0] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Us...

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