From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andy Wingo Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Anything better for delayed lexical evaluation than (lambda () ...)? Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 00:39:37 +0100 Message-ID: <87borc9h3a.fsf@pobox.com> References: <87liqtpsl9.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <874nxdwkbi.fsf@rapitore.luna> <87d3bvfo5d.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <871usaicvi.fsf@netris.org> <87mxaycmlx.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> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1323819593 22313 80.91.229.12 (13 Dec 2011 23:39:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 23:39:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Mark H Weaver , David Kastrup , guile-devel@gnu.org To: Noah Lavine Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 14 00:39:48 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 1Rabwq-0000YF-IQ for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Dec 2011 00:39:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41712 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rabwp-0008V3-R1 for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Dec 2011 18:39:47 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:58567) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rabwn-0008Um-Mb for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Dec 2011 18:39:46 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rabwm-00063V-MO for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Dec 2011 18:39:45 -0500 Original-Received: from a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com ([74.115.168.62]:50879 helo=sasl.smtp.pobox.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rabwl-00062z-0x; Tue, 13 Dec 2011 18:39:43 -0500 Original-Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E67999C00; Tue, 13 Dec 2011 18:39:41 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=eGFynF2aACIX6dbb+1y4dyweA5o=; b=CXjkCN 7hLM+lVtYqBiaXlNcfaqE5V5CMhtYR4XggqThjSZhM78+dG6X9vokYEHSRlYHEDV 7ESDCsFZ/ShlVXPUz8VjgPDN3uGGBZhmAtpw5I2IrdRHOEa2npkAWikjk/zch5Vn cnlQtFNDq2ITB3AiSdros3VnakmXB4wS+wpDA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=Egr+n/pSynID4cVGnlOMCrrxZl1HTSy2 1V47gLAthW4rOCNVq1GD7rs1NSO3q54mnpAvII4IzfD3BNeh5PefN8VEb8tzgeda KoINazayl6LSYzoUa5ac9yG8xdxCkykmaBTe0PbtAZXGJbo0lkkNIBntoHN9rGRw kh8yaeaueqA= Original-Received: from a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCFB39BFF; Tue, 13 Dec 2011 18:39:41 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from badger (unknown [90.164.198.39]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5120B9BFE; Tue, 13 Dec 2011 18:39:41 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Noah Lavine's message of "Tue, 13 Dec 2011 18:00:13 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: BA83092C-25E3-11E1-8A2E-65B1DE995924-02397024!a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 74.115.168.62 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:13070 Archived-At: On Wed 14 Dec 2011 00:00, Noah Lavine writes: > I haven't really been contributing to this thread, so please take my > opinion with a grain of salt. But it does appear to me that we should > support capturing a lexical environment, as Mark and David describe. > > So I took a look at ice-9/eval.scm.... The details of the interpreter's implementation are not public, I'm afraid. The interpreter does its job, but not quickly, and any change to make it better would involve a change to the environment representation. Anyway, it's looking in the wrong place. There is a compiler too. Andy -- http://wingolog.org/