[plt-scheme] trying not to use eval

Shriram Krishnamurthi wrote:
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> Rohan Nicholls wrote:
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>>I want to take the value from a variable and use it as a procedure name, 
>>  and have it be evaluated.  
> 
> 
> So why not just make the value in the variable be the procedure
> itself?
> 

Because it is a parameter that is passed to the function that it then 
calls when searching a list of structures.  This parameter changes 
depending on what is being searched for.

> There's almost certainly a simple, clean, elegant way of doing what
> you're trying to do that you can accomplish by employing procedures as
> values.  The use of EVAL should, indeed, be deprecated as much as
> possible.
> 
> Shriram

I will try using a procedure.

thanks,

rohan