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Next: <a href="Closure.html" accesskey="n" rel="next">Closure</a>, Previous: <a href="Chaining.html" accesskey="p" rel="prev">Environment Chaining</a>, Up: <a href="About-Closure.html" accesskey="u" rel="up">The Concept of Closure</a> [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="Concept-Index.html" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p>
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<h4 class="subsection" id="Lexical-Scope-1"><span>3.4.4 Lexical Scope<a class="copiable-link" href="#Lexical-Scope-1"> ¶</a></span></h4>
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<p>The rules that we have just been describing are the details of how
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Scheme implements “lexical scoping”. This subsection takes a brief
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diversion to explain what lexical scope means in general and to present
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an example of non-lexical scoping.
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<p>“Lexical scope” in general is the idea that
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<li>an identifier at a particular place in a program always refers to the
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same variable location — where “always” means “every time that the
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containing expression is executed”, and that
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</li><li>the variable location to which it refers can be determined by static
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examination of the source code context in which that identifier appears,
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without having to consider the flow of execution through the program as
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a whole.
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<p>In practice, lexical scoping is the norm for most programming languages,
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and probably corresponds to what you would intuitively consider to be
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“normal”. You may even be wondering how the situation could possibly
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— and usefully — be otherwise. To demonstrate that another kind of
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scoping is possible, therefore, and to compare it against lexical
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scoping, the following subsection presents an example of non-lexical
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scoping and examines in detail how its behavior differs from the
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corresponding lexically scoped code.
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<li><a href="Scoping-Example.html" accesskey="1">An Example of Non-Lexical Scoping</a></li>
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