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: %nil once again Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 00:18:41 +0200 Message-ID: References: <4A5F2F8A.5040108@domob.eu> <8763drbv07.fsf@arudy.ossau.uklinux.net> <4A603E36.7080100@domob.eu> <87ab30bk8p.fsf@arudy.ossau.uklinux.net> <4A63778E.3010109@domob.eu> <87skgsa0xz.fsf@arudy.ossau.uklinux.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1248388763 18964 80.91.229.12 (23 Jul 2009 22:39:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 22:39:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Daniel Kraft , guile-devel , Neil Jerram To: Ken Raeburn Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 24 00:39:16 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 1MU6wQ-00013M-Ij for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Jul 2009 00:39:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55428 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MU6wQ-0008Ev-1s for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:39:10 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MU6wL-0008EL-BH for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:39:05 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MU6wG-00089w-K7 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:39:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=55899 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MU6wF-00089l-Um for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:38:59 -0400 Original-Received: from a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com ([64.74.157.62]:48481 helo=sasl.smtp.pobox.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MU6wF-0000TJ-KP for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:38:59 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost.localdomain (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23566FD5F; Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:38:59 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from unquote (unknown [81.38.186.175]) (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 BE840FD5E; Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:38:51 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Ken Raeburn's message of "Sun, 19 Jul 2009 23:33:38 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.92 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 9CDE786C-77D9-11DE-AF73-AEF1826986A2-02397024!a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) 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:8950 Archived-At: On Mon 20 Jul 2009 05:33, Ken Raeburn writes: > On Jul 19, 2009, at 16:10, Neil Jerram wrote: >>> BTW, I implemented also the function bindings of symbols using this >>> fluid-based dynamic scoping at the moment -- but on second thought, >>> there's no scoping at all for function slots (all are global), is >>> there? >> >> No, I don't think there is. `let' can't operate on function slots. > > Not in the main emacs lisp implementation. However, cl-macs.el provides > an "flet" macro that does work on function slots; it uses the "letf" > macro which expands to include a use of unwind-protect to do its dirty > work. Then we should implement that in an efficient way in Guile too. Andy -- http://wingolog.org/