[r6rs-discuss] Problems with EVAL

[Michael Sperber]

AndrevanTonder <andre at het.brown.edu> writes:

> So ENVIRONMENT must have a library-name -> resource mapping available
> at runtime or it would fail.  I guess my issue came down to who is
> responsible for creating this mapping at runtime.  Obviously it cannot
> be the compiled program itself, which cannot anticipate the needed
> libraries, so I guess this is simply unspecified and implementations
> can do what they want.  I guess that's fine.

That's exactly correct.  We did think about statically declaring the
sets of available libraries, but the issues got too thorny for us to
agree on anything.

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Cheers =8-} Mike
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