CRAZY: First class namespaces

[Christian Tismer]

Amit Patel wrote:
> 
>  Amit Patel <amitp at Xenon.Stanford.EDU> wrote:
> |
> | Actually what I'm envisioning is that the __parent__ is not the
> | caller, but the namespace of the function that defined the current
> | function:
> |
> 
> Oops, sorry, I missed where you wanted dynamic scope.  I'd much rather
> have lexical / static scope, so that's what I had in mind when I wrote
> up the __parent__ thing.

Oh, I see. Well, with lexical scope, you will of course have
a problem with cycles.
I thought of dynamic scope since it appeared quite natural to
me, and I could implement it right now.

What would be better for the language, dynamic or lexical?
I really don't know, please tell me your thoughts.

ciao - chris

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