Re: Lexical vs. dynamic: small examples?

[tomas]

On Sat, Aug 14, 2021 at 09:31:20PM +0200, Emanuel Berg via Users list for the 
GNU Emacs text editor wrote:
> 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?

If you take it too seriously, you end up with a strange time,
which goes back and forth and branches. Calls stacks like to
do funny things :-/

If you add nonlocal exits (exceptions, setjmp/longjmp, continuations),
you are in hot water ;-)

Cheers
 - t

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