Re: [Chicken-users] the effect of set! on the top-level namespace

[John Cowan]

Tobia Conforto scripsit:

> Note: this might or might not be how Chicken actually handles things
> (probably not, I dunno) it's just a very introductory answer to a
> generic Scheme question.

It may be worth pointing out here, that Chicken allows you to set!
a variable that has not been defined.  R5RS allows either behavior,
and some Schemes will report an error if you say (set! a 32) where a
has not been mentioned in a (define a).

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