Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!emo
From: emo@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Eric Ost)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme
Subject: Re: where define is legal
Message-ID: <19891@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: 21 Apr 89 02:50:39 GMT
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Reply-To: emo@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Eric Ost)
Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington
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>> Offhand, the following definition seems bogus:
>>>
>>>  (define (foo bool)
>>>   (if bool
>>>       (define (result) #true)
>>>       (define (result) #false))
>>>   (result))
>>>
>>> And indeed, when I try to run this in MacScheme, I get an error message.

I suspect you get an unbound global variable error, correct?

What about the following, slightly different definition for "foo"?

(define (foo bool)
  (define (result)
    (if bool
        #t
        #f))
   (result))

eric