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


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: Anything better for delayed lexical evaluation than (lambda () ...)?
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 19:23:37 +0100
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Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> writes:

> Personally, I don't view `the-environment' and `local-eval' as an ugly
> hack, but rather as a cool feature like delimited continuations.  It's
> something Guile 1.8 could brag about.

I wish it had bragged about it at all (in the case of the-environment)
or more coherently (in the case of procedure-environment and
local-eval).  Then maybe enough people would have found a use for them
that they would not have to rely on me to stand up for them.

-- 
David Kastrup



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