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


From: Andy Wingo
Subject: Re: Anything better for delayed lexical evaluation than (lambda () ...)?
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 11:08:41 +0100
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On Wed 14 Dec 2011 08:50, Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> writes:

> I have successfully implemented the (capture-lexical-environment)
> special form in the evaluator, and also primitive-local-eval.

I dunno, Mark.  That's a neat hack, but why should we have it in Guile?
It can't compile.  It's not for efficiency, because if you wanted more
efficiency, you would compile.  So what is it for?  It has a cost, so it
needs to justify itself.

Andy
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