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From: oz@yunexus.yorku.ca (Ozan Yigit)
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Subject: Re: using contents of a scalar variable as a variable name
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Date: 23 Apr 91 19:09:21 GMT
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In article <129284@uunet.UU.NET> rbj@uunet.UU.NET (Root Boy Jim) writes:
> ... Lisp poeple will have no trouble
>with that, nor will dynamic scoping bother them.

Only if they have static scoping as well, ;-) elisp and similar subdialects
notwithstanding.

oz