On Sep 15, 2009, at 10:06 AM, Arthur A. Gleckler wrote:

>> The SML/NJ REPL actually does work like this:  if you redefine an  
>> identifier,
>> it's a rebinding that doesn't affect any uses that have come  
>> before.  This
>> can be both good and bad: sometimes it's easier to throw away the  
>> ML world
>> rather than redefine all the dependents of a bad definition.
>
> Ugh.  Let's not do that to Scheme.

You'd never get to this point in Scheme, though: we still have `set!'.

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