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1 point by jazzdev 6113 days ago | link | parent

> With dynamic binding, the last call ((mymap [f _] '(1 2 3 4 5))) would instead be an infinite loop

No, the parameter names in a function are in the lexical scope so they can't be modified by a dynamic scope.

That is, f is not a free variable in mymap. It get's lexically bound to the value of the first argument.



1 point by absz 6112 days ago | link

Fair enough. That's my fault: I wasn't entirely clear on dynamic binding. The rest of my objections do still stand, however :)

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