Hiding of Bindings

The most recent existing local binding hides all other existing local bindings.

The global value (“symbol value”) can be reached, even within the scopes of local bindings.

> (setq x 77); global

77

> (defun foo (x)

(+ x (symbol-value 'x)) )

FOO

> (foo 1900)

1977

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