From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Elisp containers
Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2018 01:14:55 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1fyVaB-0004Cf-Fp@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvr2i5iee1.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.devel@gnu.org> (message from Stefan Monnier on Fri, 07 Sep 2018 10:38:18 -0400)
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> Potential applications:
> - true concurrency
> - safely running arbitrary Elisp code (e.g. bug#32495)
> - discover what a package defines without actually defining those things
> (i.e. load the package into a container, then look at what got
> defined and throw away the container).
Also, compilation of files that define macros, without altering the
overall Lisp environment.
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Dr Richard Stallman
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-08 5:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-07 14:38 Elisp containers Stefan Monnier
2018-09-07 17:54 ` John Wiegley
2018-09-07 18:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-09-07 18:25 ` John Wiegley
2018-09-07 18:04 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2018-09-07 20:13 ` Tom Tromey
2018-09-08 19:25 ` Vladimir Sedach
2018-09-09 18:53 ` Tom Tromey
2018-09-08 5:14 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2018-09-08 5:45 ` Helmut Eller
2018-09-08 17:56 ` Stefan Monnier
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