From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Running a lisp script Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 01:51:16 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Public Access Networks Corp. Message-ID: References: <0Ixar.31221$M%7.9998@newsfe10.iad> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1336960514 12179 80.91.229.3 (14 May 2012 01:55:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 01:55:14 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 14 03:55:13 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1STkVF-0000ds-HZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 May 2012 03:55:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34426 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1STkVE-00022Z-RE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 13 May 2012 21:55:12 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!panix!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 35 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: panix3.panix.com Original-X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1336960276 24891 166.84.1.3 (14 May 2012 01:51:16 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 01:51:16 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:192407 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:84814 Archived-At: In article , PJ Weisberg wrote: >-=-=-=-=-=- > >On Sunday, April 22, 2012, Juanma Barranquero wrote: >> On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 08:06, David Combs 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). > >And to answer the question, elisp supports dynamic scoping, and support for >lexical scoping will be added in Emacs 24.1. > >-- >-PJ > >Gehm's Corollary to Clark's Law: Any technology distinguishable from >magic is insufficiently advanced. > >-=-=-=-=-=- >[Alternative: text/html] >-=-=-=-=-=- WOW! David