Alan’s blog

Dynamic scoping/binding of variables has a bad name, rather like GOTO and other remnants of the Bad Old Days before Structured Programming saved us all¹.  But there are times when dynamic binding is useful and looking around it is very common in web scripting languages, event propagation, meta-level programming, and document styles.

So is it really so bad?

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1. Strangely also the days when major advances in substance seemed to be more important than minor advances in nomenclature [back]

I’ve just installed the footnotes plugin in my WordPress¹ . It seems to work a dream.

I’ve used the following CSS:

ol.footnotes{
font-size:.9em;
color:#666666;
margin-top:0px;
}

ol.footnotes li{
list-style-type:decimal;
}

1. makes footnotes like this [back]