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Lutz and Cormullian- Thank you for your responses. Although I was hoping for a quick 2 sentence explanation, the fact that the reason for using dynamic scope requires a deeper understanding of Lisp is of course a good thing. I have also discovered PicoLisp which is another light weight Lisp scriptin...

I cant believe no one has asked this yet, but why does NewLisp have dynamic scope? I dont see any benefit to dynamic scope as all it does is create danger for name clashes between functions although I did notice that their is lexical scope for namespaces and modules. Is the reason for avoiding lexic...