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Comment by _emacsomancer_ | Hacker News Reader

I'm not convinced about the choice for the behaviour of `cons` in NewLisp.

Or the forced pass by value, or the lack of closures, or the namespaces kluge...

Or the choice of dynamic scoping - although judging from your username I suspect you might not mind that one as much ;)

> Or the choice of dynamic scoping - although judging from your username I suspect you might not mind that one as much ;)

     ;; -*- lexical-binding: t; -*-

I don't understand the motivation for this comment kludge; why can't there be a proper top-level form for this:

   (lexical-binding t) ;; or whatever

Lisps should not be ferreting out code generation semantics from comments; that idea should have died with Turbo Pascal.