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Re: Why (eval-when-compile (require 'foo)) does not bind functions durin
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Barry Margolin |
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Re: Why (eval-when-compile (require 'foo)) does not bind functions during compilation? |
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Sun, 30 Aug 2015 15:18:13 -0400 |
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In article <874mjhdyu8.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com>,
"Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> wrote:
> Your mental model should be that compilation is reading data and
> producing data, and there's no reason for that process to modify the
> compiler.
That basic model applies to most languages, but Lisp is a little
different. The very existence of eval-when-compile means that the
compiler itself is programmable. Lisp allows reflection and
self-reference like this.
And once you allow that, the OP's question becomes very meaningful.
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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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