[gambit-list] dynamic scope
Marc Feeley
feeley at iro.umontreal.ca
Sat Jan 31 21:10:43 EST 2009
On 31-Jan-09, at 9:05 PM, lowly coder wrote:
> Cool, thanks!
>
> The 'problem' I see with this, is that I have to know before hand
> that I want this variable to be dynamic. The use case here is:
>
> I'm looking at an existing code base, it has 'foo', which depends on
> 'bar'.
>
> I want to call existing function 'foo' with a new definition of 'bar'.
>
> Is there no other way than to edit the definition of bar and make it
> a parameter?
Yes... dynamic-wind.
Marc
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