Hi,
I was wondering if there is a built-in way to eval the contents of a
file inside of an environment other than (current-module)? We have eval
and primitive-eval, and it seems that load is currently (conceptually) a
read, primitive-eval loop until eof is reached. Why not allow an
environme
Jon Wilson wrote:
The second way is to make the desired environment temporarily be the
current module:
(define load-env-2 filename env)
(let ((real-current-module (current-module)))
(set-current-module! env)
(load filename)
(set-current-module! real-current-module)))
The second way h
Stephen Compall wrote:
What other Guile state might you want to modify in the dynamic context
of a load, though?
Dynamic-wind looks like a quite good idea here. I'll probably use
that. Thanks.
Well, I'm writing a function to load up some data from a file and stick
it in a hash table.
Jon Wilson wrote:
I'm not sure if my-table is what you meant by "other guile state" that I
might want to modify, but it is definitely something visible to the rest
of the program which I want to modify by loading filename.
I'm saying that there are many possible system properties one might wan
Stephen Compall wrote:
The closure isn't "inside" any module; you merely gave it a binding in
your temporary module.
A. You seem to have effectively defuzzied my thinking. Again, thanks!
Jon
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