Re: pTk for guile?
Paul Prescod (papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca)
Wed, 09 Apr 1997 08:52:52 -0400
Harvey J. Stein wrote:
> I don't exactly follow you. Since scheme is statically scoped, don't
> you know at compile time whether cons is the top level cons (and thus
> can be inlined), or whether it's been rebound?
Scheme is statically scoped, *except* for top level definitions.
Otherwise you couldn't do interactive development. You would have to do
a C-style "recompile" of the whole file every time you changed a
function.
Paul Prescod