Re: Lisp is not an interpreted language

Subject: Re: Lisp is not an interpreted language
From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no>
Date: 1996/11/20
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.scheme
Message-ID: <3057487468970283@naggum.no>


* Jeffrey Mark Siskind
|    (define self
|     '(let loop ()
|       (set-second! (fifth self) (read))
|       (write x)
|       (loop)))
:
| P.S. If modifying quoted constants was not disallowed, you can even do the
| above example without a need for eval to reference the global environment for
| other than builtin procedures.

would this be allowed?

(define self
  (list 'let 'loop '()
	'(set-second! (fifth self) (read))
	'(write x)
	'(loop)))

the list is no longer a constant, quoted or otherwise.

#\Erik
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