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From: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@cs.uu.nl>
Cc: rm@fabula.de, guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: scm_* API extension? [was] scm_* API question
Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 20:12:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <15694.49163.715320.366211@meddo.cs.uu.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ljn0s1fb3k.fsf@burns.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de>

marius.vollmer@uni-dortmund.de writes:
> 
> What is an 'interpreter'?  What do multiple instances of the
> interpreter have in common, what is specific to each instance?  I
> think that once you know what you want from multiple interpreters, you
> can implement them easily with the features we already have.  Or with
> fork.

What I want is a way to encapsulate state changes; modules give a nice
way to deal with naming variables, but not with their values. When I
have two lilypond files, one doing

f1.ly

	 #(set! global-foo-option #t) ;; default  = #f
	 \score  {\notes { .. } }

f2.ly

	\score { \notes { ..other notes.. } }

What really happens during execution depends on the order of
execution: if you do

	lilypond f1 f2

then f2 is processed with global-foo-option set to #t. If you change
the order, then f2 is processed with global-foo-option set to #f.

It would be nice if we could have some kind of copy-on-write system
for variables, so that I can reset the state of the variables before
processing each new file.

[disclaimer, I know nothing of advanced Scheme techniques, I might be
missing some basic idiom here completely.]

-- 

Han-Wen Nienhuys   |   hanwen@cs.uu.nl    | http://www.cs.uu.nl/~hanwen/


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  reply	other threads:[~2002-08-05 18:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-07-30 12:14 scm_* API question rm
2002-07-31  1:09 ` Christopher Cramer
2002-07-31 10:03   ` scm_* API extension? [was] " rm
2002-07-31 10:10     ` Marius Vollmer
2002-07-31 18:21       ` rm
2002-07-31 21:59         ` Rob Browning
2002-08-01 10:10           ` rm
2002-08-01 16:51             ` Rob Browning
2002-08-05 15:08         ` Marius Vollmer
2002-08-05 16:06           ` rm
2002-08-05 16:49             ` Marius Vollmer
2002-07-31 20:06       ` Christopher Cramer
2002-07-31 22:14         ` Rob Browning
2002-08-01  9:41         ` rm
2002-08-05 17:51           ` Marius Vollmer
2002-08-05 18:12             ` Han-Wen Nienhuys [this message]
2002-08-05 18:45               ` Rob Browning
2002-08-05 18:31             ` Rob Browning
2002-08-05 18:33             ` rm
2002-08-05 15:12         ` Marius Vollmer
2002-07-31 10:11 ` Marius Vollmer
2002-07-31 10:30   ` rm

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