[plt-scheme] How to find the value associated to a symbol via an identifier ?

On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 10:12 PM, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
> On Feb 15, Grant Rettke wrote:
>> Is there a not-ugly non-macro-generating way to do this?
>
> No, at least not for my definition of "not-ugly".  And there's a
> reason for that: questions like this are always about something that
> could be done in a better way.

While I can speak for the original poster; I found that there was a
period where I simply wanted to find out whether *anything* could be
done using macros. Often times the answer was yes, but it was ugly,
and there was almost always a better solution. That certainly didn't
dissuade me at the time, though.