Tim Peters wrote:

> Note that this is quite unlike Scheme, in which declaration must
> appear before use (ignoring fancy letrec cases),

I think that's overstating things a bit -- mutually
recursive functions are quite easy to write in Scheme
and don't look at all "fancy" (unless you object for
some reason to using (define ...)).

> and declaration must
> also supply an initial binding (Scheme has no "unbound local" problem
> because there's no way to create an uninitialized local).

That much is true.

--
Greg
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