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Re:Evolution of Emacs Lisp [pdf] by celeritascelery on Sunday October 21, 2018 @08:38AM (#18267730)
While I mostly agree that Elisp is fairly weak compared to other lisps, I should point out that it does support lexical scoping (and that is the recommend usage)
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Re:Evolution of Emacs Lisp [pdf] by CamTin on Sunday October 21, 2018 @09:25AM (#18267859)
Not only that, but you can situationally decide which kind of binding you want, which is sometimes pretty useful.
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