From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Kjetil S. Matheussen" Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: Me no understand scoping Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:18:50 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1217434817 19887 80.91.229.12 (30 Jul 2008 16:20:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:20:17 +0000 (UTC) To: guile-user@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 30 18:21:07 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-user@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KOEPq-0002r1-G5 for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:20:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53159 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KOEOv-0008Fz-U1 for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:19:45 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KOEOr-0008Ff-GJ for guile-user@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:19:41 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KOEOo-0008FJ-OW for guile-user@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:19:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=47325 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KOEOo-0008FG-L1 for guile-user@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:19:38 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp.getmail.no ([84.208.20.33]:39654) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KOEOo-0001R4-9H for guile-user@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:19:38 -0400 Original-Received: from pmxchannel-daemon.no-osl-m323-srv-009-z2.isp.get.no by no-osl-m323-srv-009-z2.isp.get.no (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-7.05 (built Sep 5 2006)) id <0K4T00F0FUOLUF00@no-osl-m323-srv-009-z2.isp.get.no> for guile-user@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:19:33 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from smtp.getmail.no ([10.5.16.1]) by no-osl-m323-srv-009-z2.isp.get.no (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-7.05 (built Sep 5 2006)) with ESMTP id <0K4T0052LUO6PD50@no-osl-m323-srv-009-z2.isp.get.no> for guile-user@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:19:18 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from cm-84.215.136.96.getinternet.no ([84.215.136.96]) by no-osl-m323-srv-004-z1.isp.get.no (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-7.05 (built Sep 5 2006)) with ESMTP id <0K4T00EMRUO6RY21@no-osl-m323-srv-004-z1.isp.get.no> for guile-user@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:19:18 +0200 (CEST) In-reply-to: X-X-Sender: kjetil@ttleush X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:6705 Archived-At: Clinton Ebadi: > > As a matter of style, you probably want to avoid local-eval as it will > have to be removed whenever Guile ends up with a faster compiler (one I've never heard this before, and I think you are way wrong. first-class environments etc. is what makes Guile special and it would be insane to remove it since there are xx other very good scheme implementations. No more first-class environments, no more Guile for me. Well, I guess someone would fork Guile very quick in case it happened though.