Re: dynamic symbol binding

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From: Paul Frederick Snively
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 1990 04:02

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jml@bdblues.altair.fr (Jean Marie Larcheveque) offers the opinion that there's
no language that allows the dynamic binding of a newly-created object to a
symbol.

This is, of course, untrue.  Common Lisp and Scheme both do allow this, as
does Smalltalk.

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From: Chewy@cup.portal.com (Paul Frederick Snively)
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Subject: Re: dynamic symbol binding
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Date: 2 Oct 90 04:02:37 GMT
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