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"But when our hypothetical Blub programmer looks in the other direction, up the power continuum, he doesn't realize he's looking up. What he sees are merely wei
by stray 13y ago
"But when our hypothetical Blub programmer looks in the other direction, up the power continuum, he doesn't realize he's looking up. What he sees are merely weird languages. He probably considers them about equivalent in power to Blub, but with all this other hairy stuff thrown in as well. Blub is good enough for him, because he thinks in Blub." -from beating the averages
- qu4z-2 13y agoIn fairness, elisp is pretty weird. Doesn't it still use dynamic scope? :P Sincerely, the guy who writes stuff like execute a:method . resolve(expand('%:p:h') . "/" . tolower(a:entry) . ".ext") (Yes, vimscript is insane, too)
- mheathr 13y agoAs of Emacs 24, either dynamic or lexical binding is available. Dynamic binding is the default though.