Re: current-environment

[Aaron VanDevender]

Mikael,

yes, you are right. this is does do the some thing. I looked for
this functionality for a while before writing it myself. I
guess I just missed the-environment in the docs. oh, well, at
least i learned something about how the evaluator works in the
process.

cya
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On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 10:26:45AM +0100, Mikael Djurfeldt wrote:

> Thank you for your patch!  It is always nice to see people do
> intelligent things with the Guile source.
> 
> But in this particular case: Doesn't this do the same thing as the
> combination of
> 
>   (the-environment)
> 
> and
> 
>   (local-eval EXP ENV)
> 
> ?
> 
> I should add that there has been a lot of controversy about these two,
> since some people believe it would be an advantage for future
> compilers not to have to support this form of evaluation.
> 
> Best regards,
> Mikael D.