On 24. Mar 2020, at 01:32, Matt Wette <matt.wette@gmail.com> wrote:

> I expect this to work, but it does not.  Any anyone elaborate?
> What is the minimum module that can make this work?  (make-fresh-use-module)?

On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 01:35:51AM +0100, Massimiliano Gubinelli wrote:
> I think a fresh module do not have any binding. So 'lambda is not defined. You would have to create bindings inside the module, maybe you could just import the-scm-module .

Yes, I think that is it. The documentation is fairly sparse;
There is something in "6.20.12 Environments" [1], and via
R5RS environments (ice-9 r5rs) you have access to some kinda
standard environments (scheme-report-environment, etc.)

As you already noticed (in the context of NYACC) , this topic
is is also somewhat  coufusing and fascinating for me :-)

Cheers
--tomás