Re: more spam on extension language fu

[Neil Jerram]

dskr <address@hidden> writes:

> What's the point? The point is that Guile is my extension language and
> also my interface for navigating my own sprawling code. I'm concerned
> that many of the changes that would push Guile down the performance
> path also impact the terrific and underused introspection features
> that Guile already has.
>
> Tab completion is a parlor trick. The fact that environments are
> inspectable and that procedure source is recoverable mean that many
> powerful lexical analysis tricks are easier in Guile than in many
> other Scheme environments.

FWIW, I value these introspection features too.  I would hope that
whatever performance improvements happen, it will be possible to
retain such features, at least in a "debugging" or "interactive" mode.

       Neil