Andrew P. Lentvorski <bsder@mail.allcaps.org>: > > Among other things, because that choice (what old LISP hackers like me > > call `dynamic scoping') turns out to be far more difficult to model > > mentally than Python's lexical scoping. > > That statement sounds like someone spent a lot of time doing research on > it. Is there a reference I could go look up? It's sort of a folk theorem derived from painful experience. Nobody has proposed a new LISP dialect with lexical scoping since the mid-1980s. Scheme and Common LISP, both lexically scoped, pretty much settled the controversy. -- <a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
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