[r6rs-discuss] Problems with EVAL

From: Michael Sperber <sperber>
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 08:29:14 +0200

AndrevanTonder <andre at het.brown.edu> writes:

> So ENVIRONMENT must have a library-name -> resource mapping available
> at runtime or it would fail. I guess my issue came down to who is
> responsible for creating this mapping at runtime. Obviously it cannot
> be the compiled program itself, which cannot anticipate the needed
> libraries, so I guess this is simply unspecified and implementations
> can do what they want. I guess that's fine.

That's exactly correct. We did think about statically declaring the
sets of available libraries, but the issues got too thorny for us to
agree on anything.

-- 
Cheers =8-} Mike
Friede, V?lkerverst?ndigung und ?berhaupt blabla
Received on Thu Sep 13 2007 - 02:29:14 UTC

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