On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 5:07 AM, Didier Verna <[email protected]> wrote: > > It seems to me that forcing a variable to be local with the "local" > keyword is just like creating a new binding for it using "let". So why > both?
local can also be used to pre-declare a variable to lift the scope. let create a new scope so that you don't need to put local before every variables. In general, these are just syntax sugars for similar things that are convenient in different conditions. > > -- > ELS'16 registration open! http://www.european-lisp-symposium.org > > Lisp, Jazz, Aïkido: http://www.didierverna.info
