From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Neil Jerram Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: eval-case and toplevel prohibitions Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2009 07:31:11 +0000 Message-ID: <87eixf3vwg.fsf@arudy.ossau.uklinux.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1236074451 29195 80.91.229.12 (3 Mar 2009 10:00:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 10:00:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel To: Andy Wingo Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 03 11:02:07 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LeRRm-0001AL-S9 for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:01:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48117 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LeRQR-000366-No for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Mar 2009 05:00:35 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LeRQA-0002zZ-9x for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Mar 2009 05:00:18 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LeRQ9-0002yp-8W for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Mar 2009 05:00:17 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=45765 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LeRQ8-0002yY-UD for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Mar 2009 05:00:16 -0500 Original-Received: from mail3.uklinux.net ([80.84.72.33]:37275) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LeRQ8-00045b-DJ for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Mar 2009 05:00:16 -0500 Original-Received: from arudy (host86-157-180-39.range86-157.btcentralplus.com [86.157.180.39]) by mail3.uklinux.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CFDB1F6C5A; Tue, 3 Mar 2009 10:00:13 +0000 (GMT) Original-Received: from arudy.ossau.uklinux.net (arudy [127.0.0.1]) by arudy (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D64038068; Tue, 3 Mar 2009 07:31:11 +0000 (GMT) In-Reply-To: (Andy Wingo's message of "Mon\, 02 Mar 2009 23\:51\:43 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:8210 Archived-At: Andy Wingo 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