Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> variable names unique, while correctly respecting the language scoping 
> rules.

Only surprising if you haven't written LISP code. :-)

Indeed, one of the big improvements in LISP was getting this right (i.e., 
lexical scoping rather than textual scoping, or some such terminology). And 
it's still a killer in macros.

Still sounds easier to debug than crashing kernel code on a machine with 
insufficient memory to host a debugger or compiler. :-)

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   "We'd like you to back-port all the changes in 2.0
    back to version 1.0."
   "We've done that already. We call it 2.0."

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