Quoth Shawn Rutledge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 2008-10-23 23:54:03 -0700:
> > 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
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 1:00 AM, Drake Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Quoth Shawn Rutledge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 2008-10-23 23:54:03 -0700:
>> > Eval only sees the top-level environment. It may be possible to use
>> > the environments egg to construct your own environment containing v.
>>
>
Quoth Shawn Rutledge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 2008-10-24 10:20:12 -0700:
> Right that's the usual pattern. But I'm trying to call it remotely.
>
> A client REPL opens an SSH connection to a server and starts a server
> REPL. Each of them evaluates what the other sends. So if the server
> sends
>
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 10:48 AM, Drake Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If you mean "later" as in "after the let", the v doesn't exist anymore.
Well it's not going to be garbage-collected if an accessor is created
inside the let, which can do destructive operations on it later.
Here's a way to
Shawn Rutledge scripsit:
> A client REPL opens an SSH connection to a server and starts a server
> REPL. Each of them evaluates what the other sends. So if the server
> sends
> (let ([v (make-thing)])
>...)
> and the client evaluates it, then later the server wants to ask the
> client to do
Quoth Shawn Rutledge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 2008-10-24 12:02:52 -0700:
> Oh, maybe you are right though: maybe the symbol 'v doesn't exist
> anymore, because in the counter example, the accessor only needs to
> access the number to which 'v was bound. So it can replace the symbol
> with a referen
Shawn Rutledge scripsit:
> [W]hy should I have to re-create functionality which is one of the
> most basic features of Scheme (being able to look up symbols and get
> values bound to them)
Actually, it isn't: Scheme has no such facility. Symbols in Scheme
have no properties except their print na
