> <flamebait> The computer scientist in me just can't believe Maple and > Mathematica are designed that way. It's just sad. </flamebait>
This is merely dynamic versus lexical scope. When you need dynamic scope, it's not easy to fake it. Of course, most of the time, you don't need it and in fact don't want it :) Nick --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
