Charles wrote:

> Is a c-expression just a co-expression that uses dynamic scoping  (a la
> Pascal) instead of a private copy of the environment, or is there more to
> it? I have not read Ken Walker's paper in Computer Language
>  (1989) First Class Patterns for Icon.

As I recall, c-expressions also didn't keep state information other than the
local variables, they were just a code fragment (or rather, a closure) that
would get evaluated in-place using the ! operator.


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