[plt-scheme] Function names

From: Eli Barzilay (eli at barzilay.org)
Date: Sat Jul 6 12:42:00 EDT 2002

On Jul  6, Matthew Flatt wrote:
> 'inferred-name is a compile-time property, and in this case there's
> no way to predict the name "ff" when compiling the first expression.

Ah yes...  A counter example would be

  (define ff1 (f)) (define ff2 (f))

since (f) returns the same function object in simple cases.


> It *would* be possible to predict the name within a module, but I
> doubt that we'll try to define such a smart name inference.

Actually, the reason I saw this was:

  > (require 'string)
  > regexp-split
  #<procedure:string.ss::3363>

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