Re: Anything better for delayed lexical evaluation than (lambda () ...)?

[David Kastrup]

Andy Wingo <address@hidden> writes:

> Did you see my implementation of `local-eval' [1]?  It leverages (hah!)
> Guile's macro expander, but otherwise is a straightforward interpreter.
> If you find it slow, there are some simple, classic optimizations that
> can be made.  With some work, it could present a similar interface to
> 1.8's `local-eval', `procedure-environment', `the-environment', and such
> things.
>
> [1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-user/2011-02/msg00032.html

If you take that message in context, you'll find that a professor of
computer science is here asking how one would implement a meta-circular
evaluator <URL:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta-circular_evaluator> for
Guile after local-eval has been thrown away.

You answer by giving an example of how to use Guile as the
implementation language for a non-meta non-circular evaluator instead.
You could likely also use Guile for _bootstrapping_ a meta circular
evaluator.  But that is not really the same thing.

-- 
David Kastrup