Re: e and pi

[David De La Harpe Golden]

On 18/09/10 06:58, MON KEY wrote:

> My impression is that the CL convention for `+' and `*' wrappers is an
> idiom born of lexical/dynamic scoping tensions.
Yeah, there's near-universal adherence to the *earmuffs* naming 
convention for dynamically scoped stuff in common lisp land, which is 
probably _why_ things "work well in practice" (as Stefan wrote) there.
It's Perl that I associate with mixing lexicals ("my") and dynamics 
("local") without a naming convention (or full separate namespace).
islisp's dynamic-let/dynamic etc. was cleaner than common lisp's 
approach. Probably backward compat is too much of a concern to make that 
feasible for emacs lisp though (cl presumably had similar backward 
compat concerns...).