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From: Ruchira Datta <datta@math.berkeley.edu>
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Subject: Re: Redefinition doesn't work
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Stefan Monnier wrote:
>>>>>> "Pierre" == Pierre Weis <Pierre.Weis@inria.fr> writes:
>> It is not only a question of type. As I mentioned in my previous
>> message, if you allow the user to ``rebind'' some basic functions,
>> such as map or iter, the behaviour of the compiler can be
>> unpredictable.
>
>It never seems to bother Lisp users.

It must have bothered some Lisp users, otherwise why does Scheme have
lexical scoping?

Ruchira Datta
datta@math.berkeley.edu