Thanks for the reply! You’ll be sad to hear that I’ve solved the problem by switching to Racket – (make-base-namespace) creates the kind of temporary environment I needed, and multiple calls produce multiple independent namespaces.
-Matt On Jun 10, 2016, at 2:18 PM, Basa Centro <basa.cen...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Matthew, > > [I know this reply is a little delayed. Please let us know how you > did it if you have already solved the problem.] > > Are you using eval-string? > > https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/Fly-Evaluation.html#Fly-Evaluation > > It might help for you to post a minimal code sample of what "almost > works" and point out what doesn't. Also, there may be a simpler > technique for what you are trying to accomplish--can you backtrack us > to a higher level motivation? It seems like you need a read-only > environment with a read/write one added on. > > (Basa) > > > On 5/28/16, Matthew Keeter <matt.j.kee...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I’m trying to generate a temporary, transient environment that a useful set >> of functions in it. >> >> The use case is eval’ing a set of small code strings. Each environment >> needs to be >> independent, so previous eval’s don’t leave anything in the environment. >> >> I can make a dummy environment with (null-environment 5), but it’s missing >> everything >> useful. Calling (scheme-report-environment 5) gives me a useful >> environment, but the >> environment is shared (so effects from one eval can carry over, which is >> undesirable). >> >> Any pointers? (resolve-module) seems like it could be useful, but the >> #:version argument >> doesn’t seem to work. >> >> Thanks, >> Matt >>
