Re: Emacs Lisp and Guile

[Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]]

>>>>> "RMS" == Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

RMS>     Except the variable concepts in Emacs Lisp and Scheme are very
RMS>     different.  Forcing the Emacs Lisp concept upon Scheme would be pretty
RMS>     ugly and unclean.

RMS> It appears they are not so different, and I think it can be done cleanly.

How and why?  Things like buffer-local variables are concepts broken
in principle in Emacs Lisp.  Moving to Scheme is a chance to correct
these historic mistakes.

RMS> Can someone tell me the precise specs of dynamic-wind?

Check out R5RS.  For example, at:

http://www.schemers.org/Documents/Standards/R5RS/HTML/r5rs-Z-H-9.html#%_idx_576

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