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Kent M Pitman  
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 More options Nov 7 2003, 6:56 pm
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From: Kent M Pitman <pit...@nhplace.com>
Date: 07 Nov 2003 18:53:05 -0500
Local: Fri, Nov 7 2003 6:53 pm
Subject: Re: Lexical environment access at runtime
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Joel Ray Holveck <jo...@piquan.org> writes:

> PS: The HyperSpec's X3J13 issues description says that the environment
> functions were added then rescinded, but doesn't mention why they were
> rescinded.  Do you recall offhand?

Yes:  There were too many bugs.

The basic scheme was believed sound, but the details were wrong.

We kept submitting changes to fix them and then new ones would appear.
We had no way of being sure it wasn't still buggy so we backed out.
It wasn't intended that this stuff would go away--just that vendors
be able to experiment with it privately until a consistent and reliable
interface was found and could later be standardized.


 
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