jayessay wrote: > "Michele Simionato" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Ken Tilton wrote: > > > I was not thinking about the thread issue (of which I know little). The > > > big deal for Cells is the dynamic bit: > > > > > > (let ((*dependent* me)) > > > (funcall (rule me) me)) > > > > > > Then if a rule forces another cell to recalculate itself, *dependent* > > > gets rebound and (the fun part) reverts back to the original dependent > > > as soon as the scope of the let is exited. > > > > Python 2.5 has a "with" statement (yes, the name is Lispish on purpose) > > that could be used to implement this. See > > http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0343 > > You are mistaken. In particular, VAR doesn't have dynamic scope. >
I said "it could be used to implement this", and since in a previous post on mine in this same thread I have shown how to implement thread local variables in Python I figured out people would be able to do the exercise for themselves. Michele Simionato -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list