Re: Gurus? Care to re-explain the absense of gh_set_x() for me?

[Miroslav Silovic]

Rob Browning <address@hidden> writes:

> However, I'm not sure if this variable is maintained across redefines.
> I.e. I suspect that if you had (mixing scm and perl side actions):
> 
>   (define foo 4)
>   $foo = 5;
>   (set! foo 9)
>   print "$foo\n";
> 
> you'd get 9 printed as expected, but if you had:
> 
>   (define foo 4)
>   $foo = 5;
>   (define foo 9)
>   print "$foo\n";
> 
> I'm not sure what you'd get.

By r5rs, top-level define of a defined value is the same as set!.

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