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From: ark@research.att.com (Andrew Koenig)
Subject: Re: Dynamic vs. Static Scoping
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Date: Thu, 5 Oct 1995 02:56:15 GMT
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In article <44uk4v$4gl@news.wesleyan.edu> jdbrown@wesleyan.edu writes:

> I was just wondering why if you were presented with
> the choice of static vs. dynamic scoping, you wouldn't want dynamic
> scoping?  What are the strengths of static?  Maybe I've just been
> coding in pascal too long and this shouldn't be a shock.

But Pascal is statically scoped.  Whence the shock?
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