SPUG: Scoping Guidelines; comments?

[jimfl]

--Quoth Bill Alford <billa at willapabay.org> On Friday, February 18, 2000 
11:04 AM -0800:

     > I can imagine cases where you want to temorarily hid the current
     > value of a global variable and call subroutines with the global
     > value changed, but you can always get around that using other
     > techniques that won't confuse someone not familiar with the behavior
     > of dynamic scoping (Lisp like).

  Not even Lisp is dynamically scoped anymore. Common Lisp and Scheme are
  lexically scoped.

--
Jim Flanagan          Collective Technologies
jimfl at colltech.com   http://www.colltech.com

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