[Bro-Dev] Meta-programming

Vern Paxson vern at icir.org
Fri Mar 22 10:29:44 PDT 2013


> If it's bind-on-function-creation, then you'd
> get the semantics you desire.  But I suspect there are other uses
> for such interior funtions where bind-on-application is handy

Hmmmm, it's possible to get both, sort of.  The approach would be
bind-on-application, *but* the "copy" that occurs upon returning a function
value is itself viewed as an application, so binding would occur at that
point for variables that are about to go out of scope.  (So any *global*
variables would remain bind-on-application.)

Surely the LISP folks have been all around this six-ways-to-Sunday.
Would be handy to know what they decided is the least crazy approach.

		Vern


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