Re: [Scheme-reports] Are generated toplevel definitions secret?

[John Cowan <cowan@x>]

Andy Wingo scripsit:

> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Bruijn_index
> 
> These are for lexical bindings.  I am talking about toplevel bindings.
> Please read the thread before replying.  Thanks :)

Well, in an ML-style REPL, where top-level definitions are bindings whose
scope is from the definition to the end of the REPL, De Bruijn indices are
the Right Thing.  AFAIK no Scheme REPL behaves like this, and R7RS will require
that the redefinition of top-level variables be permitted with retroactive
effect, provided the references are inside lambdas.

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