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From: Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>
To: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
Cc: guile-devel <guile-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: eval-case and toplevel prohibitions
Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2009 07:31:11 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87eixf3vwg.fsf@arudy.ossau.uklinux.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3ocwjpmgw.fsf@pobox.com> (Andy Wingo's message of "Mon\, 02 Mar 2009 23\:51\:43 +0100")

Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com> writes:

> So I was thinking: why do we have this fetish for prohibiting certain
> forms in a non-toplevel context? I am of a mind to replace eval-case
> with eval-when, which is actually more expressive, as it allows us to
> discriminate the different phases in non-toplevel contexts as well.

I recall that Marius added the checks, but unfortunately not why.
Sorry!  Does googling help?

        Neil




  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-03  7:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-02 22:51 eval-case and toplevel prohibitions Andy Wingo
2009-03-03  7:31 ` Neil Jerram [this message]
2009-03-04  8:48 ` Ludovic Courtès
2009-03-06 10:56   ` Andy Wingo

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