I'd instead point out that an appeal to majority is a basic fallacy. edit: Let me also add this: you cannot get away from scoping. If you create intermediate

I'd instead point out that an appeal to majority is a basic fallacy. edit: Let me also add this: you cannot get away from scoping. If you create intermediate values in your language of choice you better understand the implicit (and sometimes very complicated) scoping rules of that language. All that Common Lisp does is it makes this scoping explicit.