Re: applyContext and music streams

[Erik Sandberg]

On Monday 12 June 2006 16:33, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> Erik Sandberg schreef:
> > BTW: My current progress is that all information now goes through the
> > stream. I propose that we add command-line flags
> > --[no-]isolated-iteration, which makes iteration and translation use
> > separate context trees. This would be slightly inefficient, but useful
> > for testing/debugging, so it could be defaulted to #t in development
> > versions and to #f in stable ones.
>
> I don't understand the issue. What do we gain by either solution?

If we use separate context trees, it will be easier to spot when the stream 
interface is used improperly (for example, improper use of applyContext will 
generate bad output).

-- 
Erik