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From: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
To: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Programs are nameless
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2010 09:38:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3aardopdk.fsf@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d3waa1i5.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic Courtès"'s message of "Tue, 01 Jun 2010 23:25:54 +0200")

Hello

On Tue 01 Jun 2010 23:25, ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> ‘procedure-name’ doesn’t currently work on VM programs.  It may be due
> to commit bdf7759c, which commented out ‘maybe-name-value!’ calls in
> psyntax.
>
> Why are these commented out?  Is there some bootstrapping issue involved
> (e.g., ‘maybe-name-value!’ can’t work with the evaluator)?

Yep. We only have constructors for tree-il / macroexpanded structures in
psyntax; we would need a mutator to be able to patch the name. There are
various ways to fix this: add a mutator, add a second pass in the
compiler to name values...

Andy
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2010-06-02  7:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-01 21:25 Programs are nameless Ludovic Courtès
2010-06-01 22:19 ` Ludovic Courtès
2010-06-02  7:38 ` Andy Wingo [this message]

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