On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 11:44 PM, Peter Bex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 10:27:18PM -0700, Shawn Rutledge wrote: >> #;10> (begin (define update #f) (let ([v 'foo]) (set! update (lambda >> (d s) (printf "~s was ~s~%" d (eval d)) (set! d s))))) >> #;11> (update 'v 'bar) >> Error: unbound variable: v >> >> What I'm trying to do is pass the name of a let-bound variable in to a >> lambda defined within the let context, in order to tell that lambda to >> access that let-bound variable. eval doesn't work because it looks in >> the outer environment, right? (in which v is not bound) > > Eval only sees the top-level environment. It may be possible to use > the environments egg to construct your own environment containing v.
I thought of that, but also thought there must be a generic Scheme way to do this. _______________________________________________ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users