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#Function Hierarchy?

    20-Feb-92 10:42:14
Fm: Duff Kurland [Adesk] 72407,2764
To: Tony Tanzillo [LISP TM] 71241,2067
Tony – I have a feeling that Phil is asking more about the functions DEFUN'ed inside other functions, and listed as local symbols in the outer function's argument / symbol list. Phil, that's just an isolation technique, used just as other local symbols are used, to limit the scope of those functions. When the outer function exits, its local symbols are removed from the ATOMLIST.