On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 10:04:26PM -0700, Elf wrote: > On Sat, 5 Apr 2008, John Cowan wrote: > >> Alex Shinn scripsit: >> >>> DEFINE-MACRO is just EVAL. Syntactic closures is just EVAL with >>> the two extra env parameters, [...]. >> >> And as I believe I heard someone say on #scheme the other day, if >> your program involves EVAL, it's probably broken. Even if the >> EVAL is hidden behind something else. >> > > This sentence makes no sense to me, as this would imply that all > programs are always broken.
eval running within the program, not the eval being used to run the program. -Robin -- Lojban Reason #17: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo Proud Supporter of the Singularity Institute - http://singinst.org/ http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ _______________________________________________ Chicken-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users
