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Lexical scoping is essential if you want to use the Lisp for anything essential. If you start with dynamic scope for everything and the system develops any real
by quotemstr 9y ago
Lexical scoping is essential if you want to use the Lisp for anything essential. If you start with dynamic scope for everything and the system develops any real complexity, then switching to lexical scoping becomes very painful. Best to do it right the first time.