[scheme-reports-wg1] Re: [Scheme-reports] Ticket #281 withdrawn John Cowan 29 Sep 2011 20:33 UTC

Andre van Tonder scripsit:

> I don't think this ticket makes any sense.  Neither x nor y should
> be required to be evaluable.  It clashes with modules.  It confuses
> levels.

It bypasses modules and levels by operating with objects rather than
names for objects.  I don't see that as necessarily a Bad Thing.

> It may cause problems for systems that invoke a compiler on the
> argument of EVAL.

That is, a compiler that accepts textual input rather than data
structures, CL:FILE-COMPILE rather than CL:COMPILE.  This is why Andy's
earlier post confused me.

In any case, due to the volume and nature of the complaints, I have
withdrawn this ticket.

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