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Re: Re: Assignment no, dynamic scoping si (was: Wishes for XSL revisions ...
- From: terje at in-progress dot com (Terje Norderhaug)
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- Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 19:08:07 -0800 (PST)
- Subject: Re: [xsl] Re: Assignment no, dynamic scoping si (was: Wishes for XSL revisions ...
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At 6:24 PM 12/29/01, Dimitre Novatchev wrote:
>
>It is obvious that any function with implicit parameters cannot be used as a first
>class object (e.g. passed as parameter to other functions, or returned as their
>result). Such functions will be difficult to combine with other functions and
>generally to reuse.
I suspect you are mistaken. Using function with implicit parameters as a first class objects works fine in Common LISP, where implicit parameters will be captured in a closure that has the same extent as the function object.
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