[plt-scheme] Executing code created on the fly

On Jul 26, Ihe wrote:
> I tried doing this with eval and ran into problems. I am also having
> problems using macros or syntax rules e.g
> 
> (define-syntax make-program
>   (syntax-rules ()
>     [(make-program expr) (lambda (x y) expr)]))
> 
> I want to be able to say
> (let ((prog-body blah))
>     (make-program prog-body))
> 
> and have a different procedure returned depending on the value prog-
> body is set to.
> 
> Alas this does not work.

Of course it doesn't -- `blah' in the above will be evaluated like any
other value -- the use of `make-program' makes it just as if you
wrote:

  (let ((prog-body blah))
    (lambda (x y) prog-body))


> Basically I want to be able to execute these programs created on the
> fly and to be able to capture the source of each program ... I don't
> really care how it is done (except not with eval due to problems
> already experienced).

Are you sure you need `eval'?  If you do, then you'll need to set up a
proper namespace for it -- the default namespace is empty (and that's
probably causing the problems you're talking about).

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