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issue DYNAMIC-EXTENT-FUNCTION, version 1
- To: sandra%defun@cs.utah.edu
- Subject: issue DYNAMIC-EXTENT-FUNCTION, version 1
- From: Jon L White <jonl@lucid.com>
- Date: Wed, 5 Apr 89 22:03:57 PDT
- Cc: cl-cleanup@sail.stanford.edu
- In-reply-to: Sandra J Loosemore's message of Wed, 5 Apr 89 08:21:39 MDT <8904051421.AA19890@defun.utah.edu>
re: . . .all of the problems you mention also apply to the DYNAMIC-EXTENT
declaration proposal that we have already accepted. (The only
difference between the two is that DYNAMIC-EXTENT declarations apply
to variable bindings and DYNAMIC-EXTENT-FUNCTION declarations apply to
function bindings.)
This can't be true -- for example, there is no such thing as
"anonymous variables" in the way that lambda-forms are anonymous
functions. And as Moon's recounting of the current Symbolics model
shows, downward lambdas can be very important.
However, I was mostly concerned about the possibility that two
readers might interpret your wording "identical" in somwhat
non-identical ways.
-- JonL --