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| From | Johanne Fairchild <jfairchild@tudado.org> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.lisp |
| Subject | Re: History of lexical scope in Lisp |
| Date | 2024-03-19 06:07 -0300 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <87sf0mh9oj.fsf@tudado.org> (permalink) |
| References | <874jd7z5nf.fsf@nightsong.com> |
Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> writes: > Does anyone know when lexical scope started appearing in Lisp? You should find some information in Steele, Guy L., and Richard P. Gabriel. "The evolution of Lisp." History of programming languages---II. 1996. 233-330. https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/234286.1057818 For instance: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- When the IBM 370 came out, Lisp370 implementation began. [...] Lisp370 supported both special binding and lexical binding, as well as closures over both lexical and special variables, using a technique similar to spaghetti stacks. (Page 31.) --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- Scheme was one of the first languages to have taken seriously the implications of lexical scoping (as opposed to local scoping, which had been in use in Lisp compilers for almost a decade) and first-class functions. (Page 23.) --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
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History of lexical scope in Lisp Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2024-03-15 11:55 -0700
Re: History of lexical scope in Lisp Jeff Barnett <jbb@notatt.com> - 2024-03-15 16:05 -0600
Re: History of lexical scope in Lisp Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-03-15 22:26 +0000
Re: History of lexical scope in Lisp Kaz Kylheku <433-929-6894@kylheku.com> - 2024-03-15 23:04 +0000
Re: History of lexical scope in Lisp Jeff Barnett <jbb@notatt.com> - 2024-03-16 00:46 -0600
Re: History of lexical scope in Lisp Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-03-16 07:27 +0000
Re: History of lexical scope in Lisp Jeff Barnett <jbb@notatt.com> - 2024-03-16 23:13 -0600
Re: History of lexical scope in Lisp Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-03-17 05:37 +0000
Re: History of lexical scope in Lisp Jeff Barnett <jbb@notatt.com> - 2024-03-17 16:42 -0600
Re: History of lexical scope in Lisp Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-03-17 23:05 +0000
Re: History of lexical scope in Lisp Jeff Barnett <jbb@notatt.com> - 2024-03-18 23:02 -0600
Re: History of lexical scope in Lisp Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-03-19 05:44 +0000
Re: History of lexical scope in Lisp albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl - 2024-03-18 14:47 +0100
Re: History of lexical scope in Lisp Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-03-18 19:51 +0000
Re: History of lexical scope in Lisp George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net> - 2024-03-18 20:33 -0400
Re: History of lexical scope in Lisp Kaz Kylheku <433-929-6894@kylheku.com> - 2024-03-16 16:54 +0000
Re: History of lexical scope in Lisp Robert Brown <robert.brown@gmail.com> - 2024-03-15 20:23 -0400
Re: History of lexical scope in Lisp Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-03-16 01:03 +0000
Re: History of lexical scope in Lisp Robert Brown <robert.brown@gmail.com> - 2024-03-16 11:32 -0400
Re: History of lexical scope in Lisp Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-03-16 21:59 +0000
Re: History of lexical scope in Lisp Kaz Kylheku <433-929-6894@kylheku.com> - 2024-03-16 02:37 +0000
Re: History of lexical scope in Lisp Didier Verna <didier@didierverna.net> - 2024-03-17 10:41 +0100
Re: History of lexical scope in Lisp Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-03-17 21:12 +0000
Re: History of lexical scope in Lisp Johanne Fairchild <jfairchild@tudado.org> - 2024-03-19 06:07 -0300
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