June 30, 2006
11:29 p.m.
I read "a la Scheme" here as "actually nothing like Scheme, except I want a non-tricky way to rebind a name from an enclosing scope within an enclosed scope".
Almost. What I really want is for it to be possible to determine the binding of every name by inspecting the source text of the program. Right now, it is often possible to do so, but sometimes it isn't.