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Matthias Koeppe <mkoeppe@mail.Math.Uni-Magdeburg.De> writes:

> Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.ping.de> writes:
> 
> > What about adding "with" as a general dynamic scoping construct?
> >
> >   (with ((current-module) boxx)
> >      ...)
> 
> Please don't.
> 
> AFAIK, dynamic-scoping hacks of this flavor are commonly known as
> FLUID-LET in Scheme:

But "with" is such a nice name compared to "fluid-let"! ;) I forgot
one level of parenthesis in the code above, it was supposed to work
for multiple bindings.

I'd say that fluid-let should be in the core. Opinions?

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