Re: RFC 181 (v1) Formats out of core / New format syntax

On Mon, 18 Sep 2000 08:43:05 -0600, Tom Christiansen <[email protected]> wrote:
> I do not think you two are arguing about the same thing.
> 
> Certainly as Bart has shown, formats *can* see lexicals.  Your
> illustration does not disprove that.  It simply shows that lexical
> scoping is static scoping, not dynamic scoping, and that the binding
> of the variable to the format occurs as the format is declared, not
> when a write executed.
> 
> This is exactly the same thing as occurs with closures in terms of
> declaration/creation versus their execution.  All that matters is
> what's in scope when the format or closure template is brought into
> existence.  It doesn't matter what happens later, which would be
> dynamic scoping, not static scoping.  And this is surely not
> considered "not supporting lexicals".

Badly chosen words/phrasing. My fault, core dumped.

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