AndrevanTonder <andre_at_het.brown.edu> writes:
> On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Michael Sperber wrote:
>
>> I'll replace this by "instantiate" for the next draft.
>
> I'm not sure if this will work. There seems to be a bit of an issue
> with the definition of "instantiate" also, as escribed in this comment:
>
> http://lists.r6rs.org/pipermail/r6rs-discuss/2007-January/001357.html
>
> In fact, I could not find a definition of the verb "instantiate" in
> the document, only the following:
>
> "An instance of a library corresponds to an evaluation of its definitions and
> expressions in a particular phase relative to another library."
>
> I don't think this is actually applicable to programs and, as stated
> in the formal comment, it does not properly distinguish evaluation
> times of macro definitions from those of ordinary definitions.
I went through much the same process, assuming that "evaluating its
definitions and expressions" is the definition of the verb
"instantiate"---I added a clarifying note to that effect. (This
doesn't resolve the issues cited above, of course, but maybe this
one.) But maybe I'm missing your point---why isn't it applicable to
programs?
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Cheers =8-} Mike
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