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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> I do wonder, though, whether this is a reasonable way for a Lisp to
> work.
[...]

I think CL works the same way, at least for VAR being a special
variable.

(Note that "Emacs doesn't have lexical scoping" is not a valid
argument here because, even if Emacs had true lexical variables,
variables used in this fashion have to be special for code to work.)

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