Andy Wingo wrote:
in the %nil thread a suggestion was brought up to support the `flet'
construct (and `flet*' as well, if we choose to do so at all, I favour)
in Guile's upcoming elisp implementation that behaves just like a let
for function-slot bindings, enabling dynamic scoping for them.
It is no "official" elisp construct, but according to what I heard
there, can be useful at some times (I guess the use is mainly to locally
alter bindings of standard functions for some code executed without a
risk of permanently messing things up). So I don't know how you regard
addition of "extensions"...?
Personally? I think what's out there would be the priority, but
extensions are fun too :)
Ok, so then I'll implement flet :) It should be nearly trivial, because
I can just seperate the existing let/let* code out and use it for
functions, also.
* If we do not implement flet, we can implement the function-slots
without indirection via fluids but rather use the Guile symbol bindings
directly. This is for sure a simplification especially performance
wise, but I can't say how much it really affects. Most bindings in use
are, I guess, variables, so we save the fluid-references only in a
fraction of cases.
From a Guile perspective, I would like to avoid the use of
symbol-function. It seems that the module and variable hacks we
discussed before would be sufficiently fast. I could be wrong of course.
Hm... I'm not sure if we understand each other correctly; what do you
mean with symbol-function here? My point was that at the moment, we
store in the respective module under the variable's name a fluid, and
then use this fluid's value when calling the function:
(define foobar (make-fluid))
(fluid-set! foobar (lambda (a b) (+ a b)))
...
((fluid-ref foobar) 1 2)
If we don't want to have flet and dynamic bindings for functions as a
consequence, we can get rid of the fluids and do just (as we would in
Scheme):
(define foobar (lambda (a b) (+ a b)))
...
(foobar 1 2)
Which would be simpler (at runtime at least) and maybe faster, although
I don't think the difference is significant. But let's just add flet
and keep using fluids ;)
Daniel
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