[racket] Why global lexical variables are visible to eval?

6 minutes ago, Kazimir Majorinc wrote:
> (define x 55)
> (eval 'x) => 55
> 
> Is it one of the "top-level oddities" or there is a reason behind that?

http://docs.racket-lang.org/guide/eval.html

(Specifically, 15.1.2)

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