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Re: Dynamic variable binding
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Sebastian Tennant |
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Re: Dynamic variable binding |
Date: |
Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:46:43 +0000 |
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Quoth address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès):
> Hi,
>
> Sebastian Tennant <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> My semantic point is that the first argument to definer (above) is not a
>> symbol and it's not a variable (an unbound variable error would be
>> thrown if it was), so in the context of the first agument to define
>> there is a third data type; 'variable name'.
>
> Beware: the term "variable" can refer to an object as returned by
> `make-variable', `module-variable', etc., in Guile parlance (info
> "(guile) Variables").
Noted.
> What happens with your `definer' macro is that the first argument of the
> macro is a symbol (that is, during the *macro expansion* phase). The
> result of `definer' (an sexp) is then itself evaluated, so that symbol
> becomes a reference to a variable (during the evaluation phase).
Thanks for your input Ludo.
I can't say I've fully grokked it yet but I'm spending _far_ too much
time on this, so I'm going to let it go for now :)
Seb