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From: Kjetil Svalastog Matheussen <k.s.matheussen@notam02.no>
Cc: guile-user@gnu.org, Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>,
	Kjetil Svalastog Matheussen <k.s.matheussen@notam02.no>
Subject: Re: Order of the evaluation of elements in a quasiquote list.
Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2005 14:09:15 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0504031404000.14353@notam02.uio.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050403115906.GC7630@seid-online.de>

On Sun, 3 Apr 2005 rm@fabula.de wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 01:38:04PM +0200, Kjetil Svalastog Matheussen wrote:
> > On Sun, 3 Apr 2005, Neil Jerram wrote:
> > 
> > > Kjetil Svalastog Matheussen wrote:
> > > > Hi, I have recently stumbled upon various bugs in my code
> > > > because the order of the evaluation of the elements in a quasiquote
> > > > list changes.
> > > 
> > > Changes how?  Can you give us an example, to make things concrete?
> > > 
> > 
> > Sorry, this is the stripped down version of the cause of the bug I'm 
> > finding various places:
> > 
> > (let ((a 1))
> >   `( ,(begin (set! a 2) a)
> >      ,a))
> > -> (2 1)
> > 
> > 
> > Wouldn't it be better if this one returned (2 2)?
> 
> Why do you think that "(2 2)" would be _better_? (How do you define
> "better" ?)


It just feels more logical, left to right, top to bottom.

Thanks for the information, I had a small hope
that this was a bug in guile, or that the behaviour could be
changed with a switch. I'll fix up my code.

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  reply	other threads:[~2005-04-03 12:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-02 18:52 Order of the evaluation of elements in a quasiquote list Kjetil Svalastog Matheussen
2005-04-03  9:11 ` Neil Jerram
2005-04-03 11:38   ` Kjetil Svalastog Matheussen
2005-04-03 11:59     ` rm
2005-04-03 12:09       ` Kjetil Svalastog Matheussen [this message]
2005-04-03 13:01     ` Geoffrey Knauth
     [not found] <cmu-lmtpd-25765-1112693521-1@mail-imap5.uio.no>
2005-04-05 14:23 ` Kjetil Svalastog Matheussen

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