Lyman S. Taylor <lyman@cc.gatech.edu> wrote:
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| Sunil Mishra <smishra@cleon.cc.gatech.edu> wrote:
| >What I can't figure out is *why* I would want a global variable with
| >lexical binding.
|
| If you do not follow the convention of labelling your globals with
| "stars on both sides", *<name>*, then there is a possibility that one
| might reuse a global identifier name in a context where only local
| ramifications were intended.
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Actually, I would now claim that the proper convention is to label
not "global" but *special* variables with asterisks (which in CL
just so happen to be all globals, but this is not true in Scheme).
-Rob
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