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Re: Guile API's (Re: About modules)
Michael Livshin <mlivshin@bigfoot.com> writes:
> last I checked, R5RS's `define' & `load' didn't take an environment
> parameter.
At least `loadī does. R5RS `load' must be defined as follows:
(define (load name)
(primitive-load name (interaction-environment))))
The problem is: The gh_ API doesn't have a REPL associated with it.
Of course, you can introduce a special environment for use by the gh_
functions. But this would break the old code also.
Another possibility would be to emulate what guile has at the
moment: Everything in one giant environment, a giant boot-9.scm and
the module system on top of it.
But if I remember correctly people complained that this solution
turned out to be quite slow.
Jost