Nested scopes resolution -- you can breathe again!

[Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk]

Fri, 23 Feb 2001 09:01:19 -0800, Russell E. Owen <owen at astrono.spamwashington.emu> pisze:

> In a posting yesterday I suggested considering scaling back the
> proposal to allow it to be simpler and more regular, for example
> have a keyword or other explicit notation to say "this variable is
> not in local scope".

I would certainly not call it simpler. Maybe for the language
implementor, but not for the programmer, which must search the
expression for its free variables to list them at the top, obscuring
the program.

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