[R] Summary: do.call and environments

Douglas Bates bates at stat.wisc.edu
Thu Mar 11 18:55:04 CET 2004


Thomas Lumley <tlumley at u.washington.edu> writes:

> Lisp developers also used to
> think that dynamic scope was more useful and easier than dynamic scope.
> They don't now.

Not surprising, given the way that you wrote the first sentence. :-)

Did you mean for one of the "dynamic scope" phrases to be "lexical
scope"?




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