Oh right, I forgot to answer one of Christos' points. YES! Wasm would be a
great way to present tutorials in an ebook. I shall have to figure out how
to combine that with rst/sphinx but the idea of people being able to tinker
with the code examples live is a great one.

iain


On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 7:45 AM Iain Duncan <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Thanks for the tips and links. :-)
>
> iain
>
> On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 12:47 AM Orm Finnendahl <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Am Donnerstag, den 14. Januar 2021 um 06:14:31 Uhr (-0800) schrieb
>> [email protected]:
>> >
>> > Both Common Lisp and Scheme have rudimentary support for
>> > environments.  I believe r5rs scheme had null-environment and
>> > scheme-report-environment (the top-level?), but they are immutable.
>> > CL had augment-environment (or was this ACL?).
>>
>> It's part of the CL standard:
>>
>> https://www.cs.cmu.edu/Groups/AI/html/cltl/clm/node102.html
>>
>> I guess in CL for most cases you'd rather use the package machinery as
>> it allows for a lot of fine-tuning and context switches are as easy as
>> a single 'in-package statement (keeping symbols and vals fully cross
>> referentiable across packages):
>>
>>
>> http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/programming-in-the-large-packages-and-symbols.html
>>
>> --
>> Orm
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