Re: Re: Assignment no, dynamic scoping si (was: Wishes

At 6:24 PM 12/29/01, Dimitre Novatchev wrote:
>
>It is obvious that any function with implicit parameters cannot be used as a first
>class object (e.g. passed as parameter to other functions, or returned as their
>result). Such functions will be difficult to combine with other functions and
>generally to reuse. 

I suspect you are mistaken. Using function with implicit parameters as a first class objects  works fine in Common LISP, where implicit parameters will be captured in a closure that has the same extent as the function object.

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