Re: Lexical vs. dynamic: small examples?

[Emanuel Berg]

tomas wrote:

> The metaphor which, for me, did "click" was: lexical binding
> is a binding along "space", dynamic binding along "time".

Okay, but as for dynamic, isn't that the definition rather
than a metaphor?

"Lexical" refers to how the code is written - in particular
where a variable is defined and how it is scoped in the
source, when the source is compiled.

Lexical binding (or scope) could just as well be called
static scoping.

Dynamic or lexical binding answers the question how a variable
is looked up when it is referenced, i.e. called by its name.

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