[plt-scheme] 'eval' function seems to completely ignore scopingrules.

[Eli Barzilay]

On Jan 20, Yavuz Arkun wrote:
> Do I understand this right: in scheme, code <> data? And in, say,
> CL, it still is =?

Code is still data -- but it's more than just raw sexprs.


> Where (online) can I read more about the background that lead to the 
> consensus "eval is not needed", "code doesn't need to equal data", "eval 
> can be replaced by X, Y, Z"? And what are the X, Y, Z?

`eval' is still needed, IMO.  The only bad thing about it is that
newbies tend to use it much much more frequently than needed.

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