-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Kjetil S. Matheussen wrote: I have to admit, I don't remember the details. I know that whenever I wanted to put something in a global variable, some closure had been created before the variable was set, and couldn't look it up when I wanted it to be looked up. It's probably no worse than C++, but it was annoying. I have also decided strong typing is really a good idea. I got really tired of passing a list which represented a symbol into a function which represented, say, a generic binding. You don't really know if the value you have passed in is the wrong type until things blow up. I know, if I never made any mistakes it would not be a problem, that's not going to happen soon.