From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Eval, tail calls, (current-module), and backward compatibility Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 19:33:52 +0100 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <8762g4kir3.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <87lip70zz7.fsf@netris.org> <87ty3pjbcl.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87y5t0ucyc.fsf@netris.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1327170854 5830 80.91.229.12 (21 Jan 2012 18:34:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 18:34:14 +0000 (UTC) To: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 21 19:34:10 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RoflS-0003S5-4Y for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Jan 2012 19:34:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58596 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RoflR-00077a-3O for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Jan 2012 13:34:09 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:51715) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RoflN-00077J-Sf for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Jan 2012 13:34:06 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RoflM-0004od-TA for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Jan 2012 13:34:05 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:50061) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RoflM-0004oZ-LO for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Jan 2012 13:34:04 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RoflL-0003OO-SR for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Jan 2012 19:34:03 +0100 Original-Received: from p508ead30.dip.t-dialin.net ([80.142.173.48]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 21 Jan 2012 19:34:03 +0100 Original-Received: from dak by p508ead30.dip.t-dialin.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 21 Jan 2012 19:34:03 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 10 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p508ead30.dip.t-dialin.net X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.92 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:vklFRl4mwwfuGXQ51VHnKOJu/Dk= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:13618 Archived-At: Mark H Weaver writes: > Remember, (current-module) is a compile-time concept, not a run-time > concept. Then current-module should probably be a macro, not a function. In which case the tail call problem would take care of itself. -- David Kastrup