Re: Translators again

[Jost Boekemeier <jostobfe at linux dot zrz dot TU-Berlin dot DE>]

Ian Bicking <bickiia@earlham.edu> writes:

> On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 06:14:24PM +0100, Jost Boekemeier wrote:
> > Ian Bicking <bickiia@earlham.edu> writes:
> > > It seems as though the REPL may not be implemented in a standard way
> > > in many applications.  That is, RPL are somewhat application-specific,
> > > only the E really relates to Guile or the language.
> > 
> > Isn't it possible for a foreign language implementor to
> > implement a language specific eval?
> 
> I guess your implementation seems too tricky to me.  It's much
> easier for people to understand APIs that don't rename anything.

It's just that you have more than one environment to
play with.  In the tcl environment you can define eval-string,
in the scheme R5RS environment you must define eval with
two arguments etc.


[defining eval-string as:]
>   (eval-string <some-input> #:language <some-language>)

In which module/environment?  


Jost