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: Anything better for delayed lexical evaluation than (lambda () ...)? Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 19:23:37 +0100 Message-ID: <87borb811y.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <87liqtpsl9.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87wra1hcek.fsf@netris.org> <87mxaxihnw.fsf@pobox.com> <87obvclu92.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87aa6wbp0w.fsf@pobox.com> <87fwgolgm5.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <8762hkbkwi.fsf@pobox.com> <87borclcem.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87zkewa2vy.fsf@pobox.com> <87zkewjvyz.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87vcpka13n.fsf@pobox.com> <87zkewnzy7.fsf@netris.org> <87r5089ui3.fsf@pobox.com> <87r508nv0o.fsf@netris.org> <87fwgondme.fsf@netris.org> <87borboalb.fsf@netris.org> <87liqf5uty.fsf@pobox.com> <877h1zbg7s.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <8739cn5la2.fsf@pobox.com> <87r507m5dg.fsf@netris.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1323887055 7040 80.91.229.12 (14 Dec 2011 18:24:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 18:24:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Andy Wingo , guile-devel@gnu.org To: Mark H Weaver Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 14 19:24:09 2011 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 1RatUu-0002cr-9t for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Dec 2011 19:24:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57578 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RatUt-0004la-QR for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:24:07 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:56834) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RatUl-0004lI-L3 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:24:05 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RatUj-0001aH-Tn for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:23:59 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:53395) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RatUj-0001a0-S5 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:23:57 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35080 helo=lola) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RatUj-0006VG-7h; Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:23:57 -0500 Original-Received: by lola (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 7DC51E5F5A; Wed, 14 Dec 2011 19:23:37 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <87r507m5dg.fsf@netris.org> (Mark H. Weaver's message of "Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:26:35 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.92 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.10 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:13099 Archived-At: Mark H Weaver writes: > Personally, I don't view `the-environment' and `local-eval' as an ugly > hack, but rather as a cool feature like delimited continuations. It's > something Guile 1.8 could brag about. I wish it had bragged about it at all (in the case of the-environment) or more coherently (in the case of procedure-environment and local-eval). Then maybe enough people would have found a use for them that they would not have to rely on me to stand up for them. -- David Kastrup