[racket] Dynamic scope
Yesterday, Jay McCarthy wrote:
> You probably want something like parameters.
>
> You could make a language with dynamic scope if you really wanted it
> though. You would capture variable accesses with #%top and friends.
> Or you could just redefine binding/setting forms to use
> parameters/globals+fluid-let.
I have such a language (obviously) for my class -- it's not difficult
to do, but the resulting language is (obviously) an extremely bad
one...
(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.)
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