[plt-scheme] Re: Novice question: evaluating symbols

From: Noel Welsh (noelwelsh at gmail.com)
Date: Fri Jan 8 09:29:51 EST 2010

On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 1:55 PM,  <mike at goblin.punk.net> wrote:
> Scheme seems to have more levels of indirection than what I'm
> used to.  Returning to my (contrived) problem, how might I force
> the evaluation of a symbol?

If you haven't already, read Section 15 of the Guide. You want a
namespace anchor and eval.

We'll all put on very serious faces and tell you using eval is a Bad
Thing, but you might as well experiment with and run into the
inevitable problems yourself.

N.


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