Top "Scoping" questions

What is lexical scope?

What is a brief introduction to lexical scoping?

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Node-style require for in-browser javascript?

Are there any libraries for in-browser javascript that provide the same flexibility/modularity/ease of use as Node's require? To …

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How do you use "<<-" (scoping assignment) in R?

I just finished reading about scoping in the R intro, and am very curious about the <<- assignment. …

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What is the difference between my and local in Perl?

I am seeing both of them used in this script I am trying to debug and the literature is just …

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What are the double colons (::) in R?

I am following a tutorial in Rbloggers and found the use of double colons, I looked online, but I couldn't …

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Dynamic Scoping - Deep Binding vs Shallow Binding

I've been trying to get my head around shallow binding and deep binding, wikipedia doesn't do a good job of …

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could not find function inside foreach loop

I'm trying to use foreach to do multicore computing in R. A <-function(....) { foreach(i=1:10) %dopar% { B() } } then I …

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Passing variables to $.ajax().done()

I'm lost. How might I pass a loop variable to an AJAX .done() call? for (var i in obj) { $.ajax(/…

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Why use a do-end block in Lua?

I keep trying to find answers for this but fail to do so. I wanted to know, what is the …

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Javascript function scoping and hoisting

I just read a great article about JavaScript Scoping and Hoisting by Ben Cherry in which he gives the following …

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