Eval evaluates symbols in the global environment, not in the lexical 
environment of the let.

On Tuesday, January 28, 2003, at 03:03 AM, Fabrizio Morbini wrote:

> Hi, why there is this behaviour?
>
> CL-USER(1): (setq var-test 5)
> 5
> CL-USER2: (let ((var-test 4)) var-test (eval 'var-test))
>
> 4
> 5
> CL-USER(3):
>
> Thank you very much and Best Regards.
>
> Fabrizio.
>
>
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