Re: [Fwd: Req for help on objects and environments]

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Today, one hour, 13 minutes, 41 seconds ago, Marius Vollmer wrote:
> Guile does not (yet?) use the 'environment' data type described in
> this draft proposal.

Good reason.  ;-)

What fooled me is that Guile (1.6.4) seems to already implement most of
the operations described in the proposal:

  environment-bound?        environment-module        environment-set!
  environment-cell          environment-observe       environment-undefine
  environment-define        environment-observe-weak
  environment-unobserve
  environment-fold          environment-ref           environment?

Looking closer at what these functions do, it looks like they are
currently unusable:

  guile> (environment-ref (scheme-report-environment 5) 'append)
  <unnamed port>:33:1: In procedure environment-ref in expression 
(environment-ref (scheme-report-environment 5) (quote append)):
  <unnamed port>:33:1: Wrong type argument in position 1: #<interface (ice-9 
r5rs) 8086720>

Whatever is returned by `scheme-report-environement',
`interaction-environment', `current-module' and the likes is suitable as
the `env' argument of `eval' but not as the `env' argument of the
aforementioned procedures.  Is it that the proposal _was_ implemented
but never got integrated into the rest of Guile?

Thanks,
Ludovic.