[racket] Nested scope in D vs Racket

On Aug 21, Shriram Krishnamurthi wrote:
> I *think* this was in the 5.0.1 release announcement?

The 5.0.1 change was to allow definitions anywhere in the body:

   (define (foo)
     (printf "hello ")
     (define x 'world)
     (displayln x))

(Note that that's not in the teaching languages.)


> It certainly is a mighty pity that typing "internal define" yields
> no hits in Help Desk.  (Eli, are you reading?)

It's a matter of adding an index term, IIRC.  Maybe Jon will want to
add that?

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