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

[Andre van Tonder <andre@x>]

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.
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> 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.

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