Warning: This is the manual of the legacy Guile 2.2 series. You may want to read the manual of the current stable series instead.
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In contrast to Scheme, which uses “lexical scoping”, Emacs Lisp scopes its variables dynamically. Guile supports dynamic scoping with its “fluids” facility. See Fluids and Dynamic States, for more information.