Python syntax in Lisp and Scheme

[David Eppstein]

In article <m3y8vmz5kr.fsf at comail.ru>,
 Alexey Dejneka <adejneka at comail.ru> wrote:

> > The context of this was in accessing closures from function defs.
> > Maybe you can call defun from within another function, but it won't give 
> > you a closure.
> 
> Really?

Apparently I was mistaken, at least for modern lisps.  I haven't 
programmed in lisp for a long time; the most recent lisp manual I can 
find at hand is a 1981 Chinual, which still seems to be using dynamic 
scoping and requires an explicit function call to create a closure.

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David Eppstein                      http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/
Univ. of California, Irvine, School of Information & Computer Science