C Y wrote:
> I don't understand why
> you would want to work this way - can you provide an example where this
> behavior is desirable, or rather what it achieves?
Sure.
You can shadow the setting of a dynamic variable at a local level.
e.g. to continue the previous example,
(defun foo2()(list (foo 3)(foo 4))
note that bar refers only to x, but in the two calls, the x is different.
Also note that in this example, x is NOT GLOBAL. It is bound dynamically
within foo2.
RJF