From: Peter TB Brett <peter@peter-b.co.uk>
To: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Implement `the-environment' and `local-eval' in evaluator
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 14:00:46 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <we1mehw4pqep.fsf@ssclt001.ee.surrey.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8762hg50b3.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org
David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
>> * I still wouldn't be surprised if `local-eval' does the wrong thing if
>> (current-module) is different from what it was when the associated
>> `primitive-eval' was called.
>
> Before anyone even _defines_ what the "right thing" would be, there is
> little point in worrying about this. I don't think that `local-eval'
> 1.8 documented any behavior for this case (well, it did not document any
> behavior for a lot of cases).
>
> So it probably makes sense to look afterwards what will happen without
> special precautions, and unless that is spectacularly useless or
> inconsistent, call it the "right thing" by definition.
Maybe it makes even more sense (at this stage) to state that the
behaviour in this case is undefined?
Peter
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Peter Brett <peter@peter-b.co.uk>
Remote Sensing Research Group
Surrey Space Centre
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Thread overview: 82+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-03 15:45 Anything better for delayed lexical evaluation than (lambda () ...)? David Kastrup
2011-12-03 16:44 ` Andy Wingo
2011-12-06 14:55 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2011-12-06 15:45 ` David Kastrup
2011-12-06 19:50 ` Marco Maggi
2011-12-11 9:33 ` David Kastrup
2011-12-11 9:51 ` David Kastrup
2011-12-12 5:21 ` Mark H Weaver
2011-12-12 6:47 ` David Kastrup
2011-12-12 18:29 ` Mark H Weaver
2011-12-12 19:56 ` David Kastrup
2011-12-12 20:39 ` rixed
2011-12-12 21:02 ` David Kastrup
2011-12-12 21:58 ` Mark H Weaver
2011-12-12 21:40 ` Mark H Weaver
2011-12-12 21:50 ` Andy Wingo
2011-12-13 9:02 ` David Kastrup
2011-12-13 13:05 ` Andy Wingo
2011-12-13 13:56 ` David Kastrup
2011-12-13 14:34 ` Andy Wingo
2011-12-13 15:27 ` David Kastrup
2011-12-13 15:48 ` Andy Wingo
2011-12-13 16:08 ` David Kastrup
2011-12-13 16:27 ` Andy Wingo
2011-12-13 16:54 ` David Kastrup
2011-12-13 18:58 ` Andy Wingo
2011-12-13 22:23 ` David Kastrup
2011-12-13 17:28 ` Mark H Weaver
2011-12-13 18:49 ` Andy Wingo
2011-12-13 19:15 ` Mark H Weaver
2011-12-13 23:00 ` Noah Lavine
2011-12-13 23:16 ` David Kastrup
2011-12-13 23:44 ` Andy Wingo
2011-12-13 23:39 ` Andy Wingo
2011-12-13 23:45 ` David Kastrup
2011-12-14 10:15 ` Andy Wingo
2011-12-14 10:32 ` David Kastrup
2011-12-14 0:30 ` Mark H Weaver
2011-12-14 8:16 ` David Kastrup
2011-12-14 0:42 ` Noah Lavine
2011-12-14 0:47 ` Noah Lavine
2011-12-14 1:30 ` Mark H Weaver
2011-12-14 7:50 ` Mark H Weaver
2011-12-14 8:48 ` [PATCH] Implement `capture-lexical-environment' in evaluator Mark H Weaver
2011-12-14 9:08 ` David Kastrup
2011-12-14 9:36 ` Mark H Weaver
2011-12-16 9:21 ` [PATCH] Implement `the-environment' and `local-eval' " Mark H Weaver
2011-12-16 9:32 ` David Kastrup
2011-12-16 14:00 ` Peter TB Brett [this message]
2011-12-16 14:26 ` David Kastrup
2011-12-16 15:27 ` Mark H Weaver
2011-12-16 16:01 ` Andy Wingo
2011-12-16 17:44 ` Mark H Weaver
2011-12-16 19:12 ` Mark H Weaver
2012-01-07 1:26 ` Andy Wingo
2012-01-07 17:30 ` Mark H Weaver
2012-01-07 1:18 ` Andy Wingo
2011-12-16 16:59 ` Hans Aberg
2011-12-14 10:08 ` Anything better for delayed lexical evaluation than (lambda () ...)? Andy Wingo
2011-12-14 10:27 ` David Kastrup
2011-12-14 13:35 ` Andy Wingo
2011-12-14 15:21 ` David Kastrup
2011-12-14 15:55 ` Andy Wingo
2011-12-14 17:26 ` Mark H Weaver
2011-12-14 18:23 ` David Kastrup
2011-12-14 18:38 ` Mark H Weaver
2011-12-14 19:14 ` David Kastrup
2011-12-14 19:44 ` David Kastrup
2011-12-14 22:56 ` Andy Wingo
2011-12-14 11:03 ` Mark H Weaver
2011-12-14 11:18 ` David Kastrup
2011-12-14 13:31 ` Noah Lavine
2011-12-14 21:03 ` Mark H Weaver
2011-12-14 22:12 ` David Kastrup
2011-12-14 22:24 ` David Kastrup
2011-12-14 22:55 ` Andy Wingo
2011-12-13 16:24 ` David Kastrup
2011-12-13 15:52 ` David Kastrup
2011-12-13 11:14 ` David Kastrup
2011-12-14 13:52 ` Ludovic Courtès
2011-12-14 14:27 ` David Kastrup
2011-12-14 21:30 ` Ludovic Courtès
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