Re: [Chicken-users] Weird scope of variable defined inside cond

[John Cowan]

Vítor De Araújo scripsit:

> I'm seeing some weird behavior regarding scope of a variable defined
> with 'define' inside a cond clause. For instance:

That's not actually a supported place to put a definition, which
belongs at the beginning of a body such as a let, lambda, or
define.  It's probably being treated as a set!, and since in
Chicken you can set a variable whether it's been defined or not,
you get effectively a global variable.

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