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Expand Up @@ -200,8 +200,7 @@ Other languages that lack lexical scoping may give a different meaning to this p
However, modern languages universally favor lexical scoping, the meaning given here.

Aside from mathematical clarity, the chief practical benefit of lexical scoping is _security_, and its use in building compositionally-secure systems.
Specifically, {proglang} gives very strong composition properties. For example, nesting your program within a program you do not trust does not arbitrarily re-associate your variable
occurrences with different meanings.
Specifically, {proglang} gives very strong composition properties. For example, nesting your program within a program you do not trust cannot arbitrarily redefine your variables with different meanings.

[[intro-values]]
== Values and evaluation
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