[gambit-list] As far as the renaming scheme goes, ...
Bradley Lucier
lucier at math.purdue.edu
Wed Mar 19 18:32:40 EDT 2008
On Mar 19, 2008, at 5:05 PM, Abdulaziz Ghuloum wrote:
>
>
> On Mar 19, 2008, at 3:10 PM, Bradley Lucier wrote:
>
>
>> (define foo 'wait)
>>
>> (letrec ((bar values))
>> (set! foo bar))
>>
>
> I want to add that I know nothing about what (block) entails in
> gambit or what forms gambit recognizes as good code.
>
(block) tells the compiler that any global defined but not set! in
that file will never be set! in a different file.
> The system is flexible enough though. You can easily arrange for
> the generated code to look like:
>
> (define local* expr*) ...
> (define global* local*) ...
> expr* ...
>
(block) would recognize global* as immutable code, yes.
>
> instead of:
>
> (define global* 'wait) ...
> (letrec* ([local* expr*] ...)
> (set! global* local*) ...
> expr* ...)
>
> if that yields better results.
>
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