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From: <dsmich@roadrunner.com>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Dynamic variable binding
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:37:14 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <23638485.209921226529434169.JavaMail.root@cdptpa-web09-z01> (raw)

---- "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org> wrote: 
> Sebastian Tennant <sebyte@smolny.plus.com> writes:
> > What exactly happens when you 'define' a symbol?
> 
> But, just like "`eval' is evil", run-time symbol definition doesn't
> sound right.  Surely, there are other ways that you could use to solve
> your problem more elegantly.

Sebastian,  instead of trying to use Guiles symbol and module namespaces as a hashtable, why not just use a hashtable directly?  ;^)

-Dale




             reply	other threads:[~2008-11-12 22:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-12 22:37 dsmich [this message]
     [not found] <200811130428.mAD4SQbi030880@cm-mail.stanford.edu>
2008-11-13 14:10 ` Dynamic variable binding Kjetil S. Matheussen
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-11-12 19:53 Sebastian Tennant
2008-11-12 22:05 ` Ludovic Courtès
2008-11-13  0:51 ` Keith Wright
2008-12-19 11:50   ` Sebastian Tennant
2008-12-19 13:03     ` Ludovic Courtès
2008-12-19 15:46       ` Sebastian Tennant
2008-12-20  0:17     ` Keith Wright
2008-12-27 15:56       ` Sebastian Tennant
2008-12-28 22:56         ` Neil Jerram
2008-12-29 10:48           ` Sebastian Tennant
2008-11-13 11:33 ` Sebastian Tennant
2008-11-13 18:50   ` Ludovic Courtès
2008-11-14  6:14     ` Sebastian Tennant
2008-11-15 14:58       ` Jon Wilson
2008-11-15 16:59         ` Sebastian Tennant

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