I brought up fexprs on Lambda the Ultimate

  http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3640

just yesterday and Thomas made a similar response about fexprs and
first class environments.

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 3:28 PM, Thomas Lord <[email protected]> wrote:
> You know, the conservative, incremental thing to do
> would be to add something along the line of fexprs
> and first class environments and let the rest sort itself
> out in libraries.

Can you point to a detailed description of what *you* mean by fexprs
and first-class environments for Scheme, in particular?

> Compiler freaks (bless them)

What is the intended connotation of "freaks"?

> are free
> to handle only certain subsets of such a core plus libraries,
> punting the rest to an interpreter.
>
> It's conservative and incremental because it just floats
> some existing elements of the semantics into first-class
> values.  It's practical because, well, it's been done more
> than once.

Peter

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