On Wednesday, March 13, 2013 9:35:42 PM UTC+1, puzzler wrote:

> OK, thanks.  The apparent "globalness" is not the piece I want to 
> imitate.  I want to make a var available for users to set!, where the var 
> controls overall behavior of how the library operates.
>
> I understand that I can just declare the var dynamic, and then they can 
> control it with the binding construct, but I want users to be able to set! 
> it once and forget about it.
>

As far as I understand it, *set!* modifies the *thread-local* binding, just 
like the *binding* macro, but doesn't delimit a definite scope of validity 
for the binding. You can *set!* any dynamic var with the same semantics.

-Marko
 

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