Re: primitive eval with module => Unbound variable?

[Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>]

On Thu 18 May 2017 06:54, Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org> writes:

>> This is the right thing:
>>
>>   (define-module (foo) #:export (baz))
>>   (define eval-module (current-module))
>>   (define bar 42)
>>   (define (baz) (eval 'bar eval-module))
>
> Thanks!...this works.  I'm very happy with this, it means that I can
> create an sexp-object format, yay!
>
> Earlier I tried several things eval, but did not see this `define
> eval-module' coming.  The above works, this does not work
>
>    (define-module (foo) #:export (baz))
>    (define bar 42)
>    (define (baz) (eval 'bar (current-module)))

current-module is dynamically scoped.  Consider:

  (define-module (qux)
    #:use-module (foo))
  
  (baz)

In this case the current module for the baz invocation is (qux).

Andy