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| From: | David De La Harpe Golden |
| Subject: | Re: e and pi |
| Date: | Sat, 18 Sep 2010 17:07:14 +0100 |
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On 18/09/10 06:58, MON KEY wrote:
My impression is that the CL convention for `+' and `*' wrappers is an idiom born of lexical/dynamic scoping tensions.
Yeah, there's near-universal adherence to the *earmuffs* naming convention for dynamically scoped stuff in common lisp land, which is probably _why_ things "work well in practice" (as Stefan wrote) there.
It's Perl that I associate with mixing lexicals ("my") and dynamics ("local") without a naming convention (or full separate namespace).
islisp's dynamic-let/dynamic etc. was cleaner than common lisp's approach. Probably backward compat is too much of a concern to make that feasible for emacs lisp though (cl presumably had similar backward compat concerns...).
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