Nested scopes question

[Fernando Perez]

Mark McEahern wrote:

> 
> You might want to read this thread:
> 
> http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3B98F3B0.53AC2524%40swiftview.com
> 
> As Frederik Lundh points out:
> 
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> http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=Eo7m7.53652%24e5.2684084%40newsb.telia.
> net
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> once you bind x in bar(), it is considered local.  End of story.
> 
> If I remember correctly, this is the example Paul Graham used to make fun of
> Python as not yet quite having evolved into Lisp.  ;-)
> 

Thanks a lot for the references. So I guess my uglyish hack of hiding the 
value inside a list is after all the solution for this problem. Well, at 
least it gets the job done :)

Regards,

f.