Re: [Chicken-users] basic Scheme question

[Peter Bex]

On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 10:27:18PM -0700, Shawn Rutledge wrote:
> #;10> (begin (define update #f) (let ([v 'foo]) (set! update (lambda
> (d s) (printf "~s was ~s~%" d (eval d)) (set! d s)))))
> #;11> (update 'v 'bar)
> Error: unbound variable: v
> 
> What I'm trying to do is pass the name of a let-bound variable in to a
> lambda defined within the let context, in order to tell that lambda to
> access that let-bound variable.  eval doesn't work because it looks in
> the outer environment, right?  (in which v is not bound)

Eval only sees the top-level environment.  It may be possible to use 
the environments egg to construct your own environment containing v.

Cheers,
Peter
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