On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 5:34 PM, Alaric Snell-Pym
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 09/29/2011 05:25 PM, Andre van Tonder wrote:
>
>> On a system that that invokes a compiler on the argument of EVAL, the 
>> compiler
>> may depend on the textual representation of the code '(cons 1 2).  It may 
>> even
>> do certain optimizations and rewritings based on the textual representation.
>> Again, having procedure objects in here confuses levels and can cause 
>> problems
>> for such a compiler.
>
> Does it really? Can anyone point to an implementation of EVAL that can't
> cope with this?

Chicken's inline egg would not support this.  That's intended
for inline C code, but could be modified and used as an EVAL
replacement.

-- 
Alex

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