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From: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
To: BT Templeton <bpt@hcoop.net>
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: language environments
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 11:57:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87box12l8e.fsf@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wrfrqjr3.fsf@olor.terpri.org> (BT Templeton's message of "Sat, 09 Jul 2011 16:30:56 -0400")

On Sat 09 Jul 2011 22:30, BT Templeton <bpt@hcoop.net> writes:

> How are language environments (i.e., the values passed as `#:env'
> arguments to the various compilation functions) supposed to be used?
> Currently all languages use it as the value of the current module, but
> would it be appropriate to use the environment value to keep track of
> other compilation-unit-specific settings like the default binding mode
> for Elisp or global declarations for CL?

For toplevel languages and tree-il they need to be modules I think.
Otherwise the REPL won't work.  Lower-level languages might do different
things, but it's best to think of them as modules.  Can these other
parameters be attached to modules somehow?

Andy
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  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-11  9:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-09 20:30 language environments BT Templeton
2011-07-11  9:57 ` Andy Wingo [this message]
2011-07-12  2:53   ` BT Templeton
2011-12-06 10:20     ` Andy Wingo

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