On Wednesday 29 August 2007, Maxim Olivier-Adlhoch wrote:
 
> The most obvious reason one builds such contexts is to protect functions
> and local data from spilling into the global context (and vice-versa). 
> since you have no need for the context itself, there is no need to store
> any reference to it.  You can sort of see this as a manual "scoping" of
> variables (although its really static binding of word).
  
  To expand on that, any data stored in an anonymous context can only
  be referenced and/or changed by a function within that context. 

  This makes the data *truly* private!

  I think one can implement 'use in a similar fashion. I've seen examples on
  this ML - if memory serves me - but not implemented that approach
  myself.

Tim
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