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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
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Subject: Re: Lexical binding and macros.
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>> ehm ... isn't "lexical-let" from the common lisp extension supposed to
>> support closures?
> They're not really closures.

Actually, they are closures.  Admittedly, they're not as efficient as
one might like, but other than that, they work very well, thank you.


        Stefan