From: "Neil Jerram" <neiljerram@googlemail.com>
To: "Maciek Godek" <pstrychuj@gmail.com>
Cc: guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Me no understand scoping
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 22:37:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49dd78620807311437g7ab367bdxed293a3b8dbd5753@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e2ceda030807311221i7cc6fb11g3c1a04e41d8813b6@mail.gmail.com>
2008/7/31 Maciek Godek <pstrychuj@gmail.com>:
> Here comes another one:
> Suppose I want to define a variable, but I don't know its name
> -- it is contained in another variable. For example:
> (define a 'b)
> I want to assign a value to the symbol "contained" in a.
> (that would be b in this example). The problem is that "define"
> quotes its first argument. How to achieve it?
I'm not so sure about this one, but I think that
(eval `(define ,(car a) 1))
should work.
Now, stepping back a bit - and purely out of interest - did you
mention before why you are doing these strange things? Is it your way
of exploring and learning, or is there (also) a specific requirement?
Neil
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-31 21:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-29 21:18 Me no understand scoping Maciek Godek
2008-07-30 3:24 ` Clinton Ebadi
2008-07-30 8:42 ` Maciek Godek
2008-07-30 14:03 ` Jon Wilson
2008-07-30 15:04 ` Klaus Schilling
2008-07-30 19:24 ` Maciek Godek
2008-07-31 7:20 ` Neil Jerram
2008-07-31 19:21 ` Maciek Godek
2008-07-31 21:37 ` Neil Jerram [this message]
2008-07-31 23:07 ` Maciek Godek
2008-08-02 17:43 ` Neil Jerram
2008-08-02 21:36 ` Maciek Godek
2008-08-08 20:54 ` Neil Jerram
2008-08-10 21:49 ` Maciek Godek
2008-08-09 11:05 ` Andy Wingo
2008-08-10 22:30 ` Maciek Godek
2008-09-11 14:56 ` JonWilson
2008-07-31 23:48 ` Clinton Ebadi
2008-08-01 22:00 ` Maciek Godek
2008-08-02 5:13 ` Jon Wilson
2008-08-02 21:35 ` Maciek Godek
[not found] <cmu-lmtpd-29005-1217434291-0@mail-imap1.uio.no>
2008-07-30 16:18 ` Kjetil S. Matheussen
2008-07-30 19:03 ` Clinton Ebadi
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