Frode Vatvedt Fjeld  <frodef@cs.uit.no> wrote:
+---------------
| I find that my brain has absolutely no problems dealing with the
| burden of knowing both "let" and "flet".
+---------------

Me neither... except for occasional grumblings at the additional
indenting when I need both around the same block of code.  ;-}

+---------------
| I'd even be inclined to consider whether Common Lisp is "cluttering"
| let by using it for both lexical and dynamic variable bindings.
+---------------

Indeed. If we had to explicitly say FLUID-LET like some Schemes do
(or to keep it short, DYN-LET or even just DLET), it would remove
a certain amount of confusion (that the *FOO* convention doesn't
completely solve).

But... We'd have to add a new &DYNAMIC keyword to lambda lists
to force FLUID-LET bindings on some parameters, otherwise certain
well-established coding styles would break badly.


-Rob

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