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Re: [External] : How to create a higher order function?


From: Emanuel Berg
Subject: Re: [External] : How to create a higher order function?
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2021 03:41:04 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Marcin Borkowski wrote:

>> If they were local, how would people set them? Also if they
>> were local, how would developers add e.g. another function
>> that used them?
>
> Again: of course they couldn't be local. But if they were
> global static, the whole "option setting" wouldn't work.

Why not? Many programming languages with no notion of
dynamic/special vs static/lexical scope has global variables
with no problem using them to implement user options ...

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