This blog post by Matthew Flatt provides some more intuition for racket's eval:
http://blog.racket-lang.org/2011/10/on-eval-in-dynamic-languages-generally.html On Apr 26, 2014 12:57 PM, "AbdUr-RehMan" <arabdurreh...@gmail.com> wrote: > thanks guys the anchor one works for this case, I almost tried everything > else here > > http://docs.racket-lang.org/guide/eval.html?q=namespace#%28tech._namespace%29 > > Only overlooked namespace-anchor and thats exactly what I want here, > Thanks for indicating > > > On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 11:56 AM, Eric Hanchrow > <eric.hanch...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> I suspect this falls under the rather large umbrella of "the top level >> is hopeless". See e.g. the first Google hit for that phrase: >> https://gist.github.com/samth/3083053 >> >> On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 8:50 AM, Philipp Dikmann <phil...@dikmann.de> >> wrote: >> > When I had a similar problem regarding eval and the REPL, the fine >> folks of >> > this mailing list pointed out that the namespace-argument of eval makes >> all >> > the difference, as explained here >> > >> http://docs.racket-lang.org/guide/eval.html?q=namespace#%28tech._namespace%29 >> > >> > Have you tried supplying a namespace to eval, possibly obtained using >> > define-namespace-anchor after your imports? >> > >> > >> > >> > On 26.04.14 14:57, AbdUr-RehMan wrote: >> > >> > >> > eval working fine in REPL but gives "ask: unbound identifier; >> > also, no #%app syntax transformer is bound in: ask" error when used in >> > source file like >> > >> > (require racket/include) >> > (include "world.rkt") >> > >> > (eval '(ask abdur 'go 'north)) >> > >> > I have seen various questions regarding the same eval issue on racket >> > mailing list and in the documentation >> > but I didn't came across a case where they touch on case like this >> > where I am including another file and the function is defined in that >> class. >> > >> > Any help would be greatly appreciated, >> > Thanks >> > >> > >> > ____________________ >> > Racket Users list: >> > http://lists.racket-lang.org/users >> > >> > >> > >> > ____________________ >> > Racket Users list: >> > http://lists.racket-lang.org/users >> > >> ____________________ >> Racket Users list: >> http://lists.racket-lang.org/users >> > > > ____________________ > Racket Users list: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/users > >
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