Re: Anything better for delayed lexical evaluation than (lambda () ...)?

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello!

Andy Wingo <address@hidden> skribis:

> But, in the event that David wants to continue with his current
> strategy, there are other things that can be done.  David, did you know
> that Guile's evaluator is implemented in Scheme?  That means that if you
> want an evaluator with different semantics -- for example, something
> closer to Kernel[0], as David appears to want -- then you can implement
> an evaluator that provides for fexprs and the like, and it will run
> about as well as Guile's evaluator.

Indeed.  FWIW, Skribilo [0] has its own input language, which is similar
to but different from Scheme, so it has its own reader and its own
evaluator, the latter being mostly a wrapper around ‘eval’.  This
strategy has worked well, and portably between 1.8 and 2.0.

Thanks,
Ludo’.

[0] http://nongnu.org/skribilo/