[CM] scoping in scheme

[Orm Finnendahl]

Am 29. Oktober 2003, 16:59 Uhr (-0500) schrieb Michael Klingbeil:
> You can get this effect in Scheme using fluid-let (if your 
> implementation of Scheme supports fluid-let, or if you define it 
> yourself)
> 

thanks, syntaxwise that was exactly what i was looking for.

> Not sure what Scheme you are using.

guile.

> Anyway the mechanism of fluid-let essentially creates a temporary 
> binding for the toplevel value of i. So it  does not actually create 
> a new lexical variable. Instead it assigns the desired value to the 
> current lexical value, and then it restores the old value upon 
> exiting from the body of the fluid-let.

...and allocates temporary storage space for the old meaning of the
lexical variable. At first sight it looks a little awkward to actually
access the toplevel variable, rather than persuade a procedure to
access a local binding, but I'll give it a try as in my case it will
probably speed up computation significantly.

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Orm