On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 13:59, Andrew Koenig wrote:
This looks (a) cool and (b) a complete hack that nobody should be allowed to do without messing with sys._getframe().
It reminds me a little bit of the dynamic binding in Emacs lisp. As incredibly useful as that is sometimes, it's a disgusting hack. :)
And, if I understand correctly, something from which the Lisp community is moving away--preferring, instead, the notion of "lexical scoping" such as in Scheme.
That's my understanding too. Back when I followed such things, there was a lot of discussion in the XEmacs lists about implementing lexical scoping and getting rid of this ugly hack (eventually -- no doubt there's tons of old elisp that would break as a result). tim-would-have-fixed-python-mode-ly y'rs, -Barry