On 5/23/16 11:32 AM, Grisha Levit wrote:
>
> On Sun, May 22, 2016 at 10:08 PM, Chet Ramey <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
> Should the assignment work? I'm considering changing the assignments to
> work more like the references.
>
>
> I think it would be useful for the assignment to work, as that allows
> functions to take variable names as arguments without worrying about name
> collisions. Would it also be possible to have the reference resolve the
> same way? If not, then I suspect consistency in assignments and references
> would be preferable.
I don't like the fact that variable binding simply ignores nameref loops
and treats them the same as the variable not being found. That's the
difference here.
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