🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <PCG.90Nov16161830@odin.cs.aber.ac.uk>, pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) writes:

 	[ ... on the issue of scoping rules ... ]

> Oh yes. And I have decided to come out of the closet with a profound and
> utterly revolutionary secret that I have been holding in my conscience
> for so many years. Alas, no more. I have to pull this weight off my
> chest (I am also pulling your leg a bit here :->).

	Pull on the right one, please.  The left one is already
	47 feet long.  

Piercarlo introduces the interesting notion of inverting the operation
of scoping.  The idea is, of course, utterly unsettling to those of us
for whom the traditional rules are engrained.  I am going to have to
think about this one.  I would be enchanted to see some further development
of this idea.
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