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In article <4h4ifd$mq8@agate.berkeley.edu> bh@anarres.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Brian Harvey) writes:

|   Even internal definitions make interactive development a pain because
|   you can't change them interactively without redoing the outer definition,
|   and, even more annoying, you can't trace them!  I almost never use
|   internal definitions for that reason.

Actually, you used to be able to do both in MIT Scheme, although in a
contorted way.  I seem to recall that some of the support is there,
but it may have decayed.

