Guile 1.4.1.118 available

2008-07-16 Thread Thien-Thi Nguyen
release notes: Yay, autoconf! thi NEWS excerpt: - 1.4.1.118 | 2008-07-16 - bugfix: guile.m4 macro GUILE_TOOLS_PROG handles missing program This macro used to erroneously set the shell-variable to a null string in the case where the requested program was unavailab

Re: Closure?

2008-07-16 Thread Andy Wingo
On Tue 15 Jul 2008 09:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > "Neil Jerram" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I agree. I can't see a reason why we might want to remove >> `the-environment' and `local-eval', even if Guile's internal >> representation of environments changes, because the i

Re: Closure?

2008-07-16 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hey, Andy Wingo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You can determine exactly what should be in the lexical environments at > compile-time; thus you can allocate a fixed structure of variables to > hold the lexicals. In addition, one expects constant-time access to local variables (aka. "ilocs"), whic