Re: Transient environment with standard functions

[Matthew Keeter]

Thanks for the reply!

You’ll be sad to hear that I’ve solved the problem by switching to Racket –
(make-base-namespace) creates the kind of temporary environment I needed,
and multiple calls produce multiple independent namespaces.

-Matt

On Jun 10, 2016, at 2:18 PM, Basa Centro <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi Matthew,
> 
> [I know this reply is a little delayed.  Please let us know how you
> did it if you have already solved the problem.]
> 
> Are you using eval-string?
> 
> https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/Fly-Evaluation.html#Fly-Evaluation
> 
> It might help for you to post a minimal code sample of what "almost
> works" and point out what doesn't.  Also, there may be a simpler
> technique for what you are trying to accomplish--can you backtrack us
> to a higher level motivation?  It seems like you need a read-only
> environment with a read/write one added on.
> 
> (Basa)
> 
> 
> On 5/28/16, Matthew Keeter <address@hidden> wrote:
>> I’m trying to generate a temporary, transient environment that a useful set
>> of functions in it.
>> 
>> The use case is eval’ing a set of small code strings.  Each environment
>> needs to be
>> independent, so previous eval’s don’t leave anything in the environment.
>> 
>> I can make a dummy environment with (null-environment 5), but it’s missing
>> everything
>> useful.  Calling (scheme-report-environment 5) gives me a useful
>> environment, but the
>> environment is shared (so effects from one eval can carry over, which is
>> undesirable).
>> 
>> Any pointers?  (resolve-module) seems like it could be useful, but the
>> #:version argument
>> doesn’t seem to work.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Matt
>>