Summary

consider `begin` variant with toplevel semantics that can be used locally

Metadata

• Id: 6e91ecfc0314741be8298a90f95552a18faf7a0d
• Trac id: 216
• Type: enhancement
• Reporter: felix
• Owner: felix
• Cc:
• Status: closed
• Component: core libraries
• Estimated difficulty:
• Resolution: fixed
• Priority: not urgent at all
• Milestone:
• Version: 4.5.x
• Changetime: 2010-04-23 19:10:02 UTC
• Created: 2010-04-20 12:31:46 UTC
• Keywords: toplevel-begin

Description

`(##core#toplevel-begin BODY ...)`: like `begin`, but do not canonicalize the `BODY`.

This allows wrapping toplevel code with a procedure, for example:

 (define (toplevel)
   (##core#toplevel-begin
     (define a 1)
     ...))
 
 ...
 
 (toplevel)       ; initialize
 a

Changes and comments

[2010-04-23 19:10:02 UTC] felix changed status from new to closed

[2010-04-23 19:10:02 UTC] felix set resolution to fixed

[2010-04-23 19:10:02 UTC] felix wrote:

aded in 4722762d (experimental).