From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.gamma.ru!Gamma.RU!newsfeed1.bredband.com!bredband!uio.no!news-feed.ifi.uio.no!ifi.uio.no!not-for-mail From: Erik Naggum Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: special variables Date: 09 Sep 2002 21:32:16 +0000 Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 35 Message-ID: <3240595936928769@naggum.no> References: <87znut8g7g.fsf@dill.topp.dyndns.com> <87vg5g6s9h.fsf@dill.topp.dyndns.com> <3240516108606891@naggum.no> <87d6ro6muf.fsf@dill.topp.dyndns.com> <3240529168697173@naggum.no> <3240578516876072@naggum.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: maud.ifi.uio.no 1031607137 26306 129.240.64.16 (9 Sep 2002 21:32:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@ifi.uio.no NNTP-Posting-Date: 9 Sep 2002 21:32:17 GMT Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:40100 * Aleksandr Skobelev | Could you elaborate on this in more details, please? I need some motivation to do that. | I didn't have an intent to get an absolutely correct description of | variables evaluation mechanism but just a somewhat simplificated model that | able to lit a some light on the topic for a person that is not a Lisp | expert. This is the opposite of motivation for me. Some of us here actually spend a lot of time trying to get things absolutely correct, only to be met with a strong desire to get it less than correct and highly confused. This is not rewarding. | But, after looking in HyperSpecs and in proposal that has been mentioned by | Kent Pitman (thank you, Kent, it is very useful), I still don't understand | what 'is just plain wrong' in my message. Then you do not understand what you wrote, either. > If symbol isn't declared as a special one, then in LET form Lisp will try to > find binding in lexical scope first, and then, if failed, in global scope. This is not true. It is horribly confused. | So, I hope, you will help me to understand in what. I no longer know where you went wrong, so I cannot help you. -- Erik Naggum, Oslo, Norway Act from reason, and failure makes you rethink and study harder. Act from faith, and failure makes you blame someone and push harder.