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4 points by drcode 5913 days ago | link | parent

It might make more sense to have the eval prepend a suffix on all variables before "evaling"- Sort of like a poor man's namespace.


2 points by eds 5912 days ago | link

I still don't see why something like this wouldn't work for most cases:

http://arclanguage.org/item?id=4481

If you did this for all local variables, and then used namespace-undefine-variable! to delete any defs that had been evaluated, I think you would get a fairly well restricted eval.

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4 points by lacker 5912 days ago | link

I agree with you - I think this is roughly the right idea, I just hadn't found namespace-undefine-variable! when I asked this question.

I think there's still somewhat of a problem with wrapping variables in a "let" with their deep copies - that prevents internal code from wrapping builtins and having other builtins use the wrap, because the let will make the builtin-wrap scope different from the outer scope. But you can do the special-suffix thing in this case.

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