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- From: lpb@cs.bham.ac.uk (Luc Beaudoin)
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- Subject: Re: dlocals etc.
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- Date: 24 Jan 93 18:01:08 GMT
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- sfk@otter.hpl.hp.com (Steve Knight) writes:
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- > The upshot of this is that Scheme achieves its lightweight continuations
- > by forcing all (mutable) variables to be type-3 lexicals. This is just
- > shifting the work from one place to another, of course. It makes good sense
- > in Scheme because very few variables are mutable. It makes poor sense in
- > current day Pop because almost all variables are mutable.
-
- Pardon my ignorance, Steve, but what do you mean by mutable?
-
- Humbly,
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- Luc
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