Jussi Piitulainen <jpiit...@ling.helsinki.fi>: > The claim was that Lisp variables are symbols. What do you write in > Common Lisp in place of the "..." to have the following evaluate to > the the value of the variable x? > > (let ((x (f)) (y 'x)) (... y ...)) > > No, (eval y) is not an answer, and (symbol-value y) is not an answer: > these do not do the thing at all.
I must admit I have never used Common Lisp. I can only guess from your question its symbol-value fetches the value from the global symbol table -- even if you replaced let with let* (the two x's are not the same symbol when let is used). I don't see any practical reason for that limitation. If you allow setq/setf/set!, you have no reason to disallow symbol-value on a local variable. Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
