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A comment on The Problem with Implicit Scoping in CoffeeScript. Parent comment
Poppycock. It doesn't get simpler than
a. newly bound variables are new b. any variable which wasn't bound in the present scope must be bound in a enclosing scope.
Of course, it's kind of socially acceptable to get wrong because a lot of language designers didn't think it through and used the same operator for both binding and reassigning a variable (i.e. '=').
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Poppycock. It doesn't get simpler than
If your language makes it much more complicated than First Order Logic (http://cnx.org/content/m12081/latest/), you're doing it wrong.Of course, it's kind of socially acceptable to get wrong because a lot of language designers didn't think it through and used the same operator for both binding and reassigning a variable (i.e. '=').