Re: [Chicken-users] dynamic scoping

[Felix]

From: John Cowan <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: [Chicken-users] dynamic scoping
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 20:17:38 -0400

> Dan Leslie scripsit:
> 
>> The related SRFI is withdrawn, is it safe to assume that fluid-let
>> will be available outside of Chicken?
> 
> The implementation of fluid-let is trivial, provided you don't have
> more than one thread to deal with.  That's why they were withdrawn,
> bad behavior when multiple threads are involved.  Parameters have
> their own problems, especially when mutated rather than rebound,
> but they're an advance on fluid-let.

I found fluid-let nice for dynamically binding lexical/local variables
in nested functions. But for global dynamic binding, parameters are of course
more robust.


cheers,
felix