Re: Making the -e option compatible with new versions of Guile 1.4

[Neil Jerram]

Marius Vollmer wrote:
> Hmm, I don't think we should extend @ or @@ to do this.  Lexical
> variables are different from global ones: they only exist within a
> given environment and you need to specify that environment when
> accessing them.  @ and @@ can not specify this environment. [...]
> Which procedure should this refer to?  Every call to xxx creates a new
> procedure named 'internal-proc'.

Ahem; yes, that's a pretty fundamental problem, isn't it.  I feel quite 
embarassed not to have realized this!

Thanks for pointing it out.

> Hmm, yes, in a debugger, your syntax could refer to all procedures
> every created.

Hmm - not sure what you mean here by "all procedures".

>  So it could be part of the syntax of the debugger.

Yes - I'll give it some thought.  It's pretty clear what someone would 
mean by "setting a breakpoint on internal-proc", but we need to think of 
a way of saying this that works for more general local environment 
situations as well.

        Neil