[racket] Dynamic scope

From: Raoul Duke (raould at gmail.com)
Date: Thu Jun 23 18:12:59 EDT 2011

On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 3:04 PM, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
>> You probably want something like parameters.
> (What people *probably* want is something like CL, where you can
> declare a specific variable as special -- and then when you use it in
> a `let' or as a function argument, that binding is done dynamically.
> Doable too, probably, but little point IMO.)

can't say i grok this all, but

http://okmij.org/ftp/Computation/dynamic-binding.html#DDBinding

and

http://okmij.org/ftp/Computation/dynamic-binding.html#implicit-parameter-neq-dynvar

are potentially interesting reading.


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