On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 5:11 AM, Gordon Woodhull <gordon@woodhull.com> wrote:

On Jan 12, 2009, at 4:50 AM, Robert Jones wrote:

If so, can anyone point me at the relevant bit of documentation.

If not, are there some 'standard' techniques to produce a similar effect?

Phoenix has "let"
http://spirit.sourceforge.net/dl_docs/phoenix-2/libs/spirit/phoenix/doc/html/phoenix/composite.html#phoenix.composite.scope.let

Thanks Gordon.

I keep bumping into things for which the answer is Phoenix, which I guess is why
it's replacing Lambda. It's a bit of a bind tho' (no pun intended!), having just got to
a point of working familiarity with Lambda, I'll have to go through it all again with
Phoenix!

Regards,

Rob.