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> used in functional languages

Used in some. Haskell and OCaml mandate scope binding (unless you're at the top level of a module). Erlang does single-assignment (really pattern matches aliasing, an extremely limited version of Prolog's unification) without scope declaration, but what other FP languages do that?




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