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From: jeff@festival.ed.ac.uk (J W Dalton)
Subject: Re: Confused over Scheme Pedagogy of mutation procedures
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stevev@miser.uoregon.edu (Steve VanDevender) writes:

>The difference is that in purely dynamic-scoped languages, you
>can't create permanent local environments because they don't have
>such a thing as a lexical closure.  In a dynamic-scoped language,
>local environments are created by function calls and destroyed
>when functions exit;

That's not necessarily so.  See my earlier message about funargs
in Lisp 1.5.

-- jeff
