[plt-scheme] 'eval' function seems to completely ignore
scopingrules.
Majorinc, Kazimir
kazimir at chem.pmf.hr
Sun Jan 20 07:14:33 EST 2008
Noel Welsh wrote:
> Almost all uses of eval have been subsumed by other features of (PLT) Scheme,making eval very rare in 'production' code.
>
It is the matter of strategic decision. Eval is not necessary at all,
but Lisp cannot fulfill the promise about "code=data" without almighty
eval, and there is a large territory behind that. Whole Lisp community
seems to be more in, say, pragmatic mood for good few decades.
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