nested scopes
Darren New
dnew at san.rr.com
Tue Feb 6 13:19:16 EST 2001
D-Man wrote:
> Do you know of any situations where it would be advantageous to have
> dynamic scoping instead of static scoping? (Note that I'm not asking
> for situations where dynamic scoping exists, but where it would be
> better)
My understanding is that it was more an artifact of the implementation of
LISP than it was a desirous effect. It might be better if you're trying to
form closures or do funky macro stuff or something, but I'm not sure.
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