Re: Eval, tail calls, (current-module), and backward compatibility

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello!

Andy Wingo <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Wed 18 Jan 2012 22:18, address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
>>         (('apply (f args))
>>          (apply (eval f env) (eval args env)))
>
> This is in primitive-eval (and here, `eval' is locally bound).  Mark is
> talking about R5RS `eval' (`scm_eval').

OK, but ‘scm_eval’ is not recursive, so no wonder it’s not
tail-recursive.  :-)

(I’m confident I’m missing something, but I just fail to see what.  ;-))

Ludo’.