Orchid XP v7 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> >   I asked because 'let' sounded to me like an assignment, which is not
> > functional.
>
> I'm pretty sure you're right about Lisp. But in Haskell, it's not an
> assignment - although it does look like one.

In Scheme and Lisp, let introduces new lexical scoped bindings for values, just
like in Haskell.  Except someone can use set! on them and break all referential
transparency apart...

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