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Re: Issue: PROCLAIM-LEXICAL (Version 5)
- To: cl-cleanup@SAIL.STANFORD.EDU, JAR@AI.AI.MIT.EDU
- Subject: Re: Issue: PROCLAIM-LEXICAL (Version 5)
- From: David A. Moon <Moon@STONY-BROOK.SCRC.Symbolics.COM>
- Date: Fri, 27 Nov 87 10:50 EST
- In-reply-to: <871125-154700-2532@Xerox>
Date: 25 Nov 87 15:46 PST
From: Masinter.pa@Xerox.COM
There was a lot of grumbling that the notion of "global LEXICAL" was a
contradiction....
As I recall, the original motivation for making a proposal here was
popular demand for a notion of "global LEXICAL" in the language. The
evolution of the proposal was then driven by a desire to straighten out
various inconsistencies, but may have lead to introducing more
inconsistencies or complexities, a process to which I am afraid I have
contributed. If there is some kind of concensus that no one wants
"global LEXICAL" anyway, maybe we ought to call the whole thing off? I
still think Common Lisp has some confusion here that would be worth
straightening out, but certainly there are other areas we could be
cleaning up instead.