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Whither newLISP? / Why dynamic scope?
May 02, 2012, 08:42:57 PM
I cant believe no one has asked this yet, but why does NewLisp have dynamic scope? I dont see any benefit to dynamic scope as all it does is create danger for name clashes between functions although I did notice that their is lexical scope for namespaces and modules. Is the reason for avoiding lexical scope is that you want to avoid incuring an overhead on speed in NewLisp? Is there any practical reason for having dynamic scope over lexical scope other than speed and efficiency of the running code?
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