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From: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>
To: David Combs <dkcombs@panix.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Running a lisp script
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2012 16:01:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAeL0SSThN-XwBD9Wc63UkQPwiZ4JV5fYzCUyECgsXdykHoYiQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jn0757$jk5$1@reader1.panix.com>

On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 08:06, David Combs <dkcombs@panix.com> wrote:

> Too late at night for me to remember the name of the "scheme", but
> Perl added it via its (sic) "local" variables.   AH -- dynamic binding,
> that's what it's called.  Which Elisp doesn't have, being derived from
> MacLisp thinking.
>
> That was a long time ago.  Is what I remember actually a correct memory?

I think you've mixed a bit lexical and dynamic scoping (Perl "local"
is indeed dynamic scoping, but Scheme's novelty was lexical scoping,
which Common Lisp copied).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexical_scope#Lexical_scoping_and_dynamic_scoping

    Juanma



  reply	other threads:[~2012-04-22 14:01 UTC|newest]

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2012-04-22  6:06       ` Running a lisp script David Combs
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2012-05-14  1:51             ` David Combs

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