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[Bug-kawa] Re: [bugs #11577] gnu.mapping.InheritingEnvironment not seein


From: thomas kirk
Subject: [Bug-kawa] Re: [bugs #11577] gnu.mapping.InheritingEnvironment not seeing symbols in parent environment
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 14:37:54 -0500

 > Note your followup is is a little unclear because you seem to use
 > "symbol" when you mean "binding".  Symbols are global and have no
 > mutable state - though Symbols can live in different namespaces
 > (packages).  Dynamic bindings are implemented using Location
 > objects, and they are mutable.  They don't necessarily have a
 > name.  An Environment maps a (Symbol, property)-pair to a Location.
 > The inheritance and other magic is all done at the level of
 > Environments and Locations; not Symbols.  (This is a change in
 > the last few months.)

Yes, I did indeed conflate the terms without thought. Let me know if 
the description is still unclear after sed s/symbol/binding/g.






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