Re: environments

[Marius Vollmer]

Ian Zimmerman <address@hidden> writes:

> guile> (use-modules (ice-9 r5rs))
> guile> (define e (null-environment 5))
> guile> (environment? e)
> #f
> guile> 
>
> Comments?

There are two kinds of environments in Guile.  No no, three, there are
three types of environment in Guile.  The one that is tested for by
'environment?' is not used.  It should probably be removed or
deactivated.

(There was a plan to use the unused kind of environments as the
underlying data type for implementing the module system.  The other
two kinds of environments are the data structures used to implement
the 'lexical' environment in the interpreter (very low level) and the
modules, which might also be called top-level environments.)

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