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Date:Mon Jan 24 18:01:08 1993 
Subject:Re: dlocals etc. 
From:Luc Beaudoin 
Volume-ID:930124.03 

sfk@otter.hpl.hp.com (Steve Knight) writes:

> The upshot of this is that Scheme achieves its lightweight continuations
> by forcing all (mutable) variables to be type-3 lexicals.  This is just
> shifting the work from one place to another, of course.  It makes good sense
> in Scheme because very few variables are mutable.  It makes poor sense in
> current day Pop because almost all variables are mutable.

Pardon my ignorance, Steve, but what do you mean by mutable?

Humbly,

Luc
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