Nikita Karetnikov <[email protected]> skribis:
>> Could we instead of a global (current-generation-number profile)
>> procedure? We’d store the number in a local variable here, to avoid
>> repeated ‘readlink’ calls.
>
> I don’t see how the former implies the latter. Could you expand on
> this?
I’m suggesting to have a procedure like this:
(define (current-generation-number profile)
;; Return the current generation number of PROFILE.
...)
And then you could do:
(let ((generation (current-generation-number profile)))
...)
Does that make sense?
Ludo’.
