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Article #1645Re: dynamic symbol binding
From: Richard A. O'Keefe
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 1990 08:06
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 1990 08:06
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In article <1653@seti.inria.fr>, jml@bdblues.altair.fr (Jean Marie Larcheveque) writes: > To my knowledge, there is no language which allows you to > bind a symbol to an object created dynamically. How does REF REAL x = HEAP REAL := 0.0; (faint memories of Algol 68) differ from what you want? What's wrong with (let ((now (make-date))) ;; use new object bound to "now" ... (set! now (make-date)) ;; use *different* object bound to "now" ...) (Scheme) -- Fixed in the next release.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!know!samsung!munnari.oz.au!goanna!ok From: ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: dynamic symbol binding Message-ID: <3875@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> Date: 2 Oct 90 08:06:40 GMT References: <1653@seti.inria.fr> Organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia Lines: 18