[racket] Eval on quasiquoted expression

Hello everybody,

This is my first post to Racket mailing list and hopefully not my last one.

I am working on a project at my university that has to do with genetic
programming. I wanted to implement the whole assignment in Racket because of
some of its really cool features that I found useful.

I create a randomly chosen tree of expressions with "bound" symbol, say x.
Something like this:

(define tree '(+ x (* 3 (* x x)))

Now I want to turn into a procedure by calling

(tree->proc tree 'x)

I defined this function like this

(define (tree->proc tree symbol)
  (eval `(lambda (,symbol) tree)))

and it works in the REPL, but when i call tree->proc from inside the
definitions window it produces the error
"compile: unbound identifier (and no #%app syntax transformer is bound) in:
lambda"

I have tried several other Scheme implementations and they do not complain
about this. From what I've learned from "JRM's Syntax-rules Primer for the
Merely Eccentric" certain environments do not have syntactic mapping for
function calls.

I guess it is something trivial but cannot figure it out from the
documentation.


/Milan
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