> providing replacement data for a malformed file? In what world does that ever happens? that sort of pattern happens in coding theory, error correcting codes

> providing replacement data for a malformed file? In what world does that ever happens? that sort of pattern happens in coding theory, error correcting codes for example. > In C++ i don't claim to know the answer, but does it matter that the free variable allocation strategy for a Lisp lambda differs from what lambda means in C++?