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From: ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: dynamic symbol binding
Message-ID: <3875@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au>
Date: 2 Oct 90 08:06:40 GMT
References: <1653@seti.inria.fr>
Organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
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In article <1653@seti.inria.fr>, jml@bdblues.altair.fr (Jean Marie Larcheveque) writes:
> To my knowledge, there is no language which allows you to
> bind a symbol to an object created dynamically.

How does
	REF REAL x = HEAP REAL := 0.0;
(faint memories of Algol 68) differ from what you want?
What's wrong with
	(let ((now (make-date)))
	    ;; use new object bound to "now"
	    ...
	    (set! now (make-date))
	    ;; use *different* object bound to "now"
	    ...)
(Scheme)

-- 
Fixed in the next release.