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demonstration of R's lexical scoping
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lexical.R
> y <- 10
> f <- function(x) {
y <- 2
y^2 + g(x)
}
> g <- function(x) {
x * y
}
> f(3)
[1] 34
> ls(environment(g))
[1] "f" "g" "y"
> get("y", environment(g))
[1] 10
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