Python vs Lisp: was RE: how to pass the name of a variable as argument?

For "Python-On-Lisp: unleashing Python libraries in Common Lisp," see

     http://common-lisp.net/project/python-on-lisp/

With GCL, I'd guess that this would not work :(

Some questions:

(1) Has anybody experimented with changes to Maxima (meval, mset,
... ?) that would give Maxima lexical scope? Or maybe optionally give
Maxima lexical scope? How much effort would be required? How much of
the share would be broken?

(2) Are some Maxima features (the fact database, contexts, the values
list, ...) incompatible with lexical scope?


Barton