Re: [Scheme-reports] Current tickets for the 5th ballot - 281

[Alaric Snell-Pym <alaric@x>]

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On 09/30/2011 01:50 PM, Andre van Tonder wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Sep 2011, Alaric Snell-Pym wrote:
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>> On 09/29/2011 05:25 PM, Andre van Tonder wrote:
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>>> 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?
>
> I don't think Larceny's eval can cope with this.
>

Why is that? How does it work? What's the architectural tradeoff they've
made? MORE DATA :-)

ABS

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