<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16414" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV>Look for namespace-set-variable-value! in the help menu,</DIV> <DIV>PLT MzScheme Language Manual section Namespaces.</DIV> <DIV>Works for top-level variables only.</DIV> <DIV>Jos Koot</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>(((((lambda(x)((((((((x x)x)x)x)x)x)x)x))<BR>    (lambda(x)(lambda(y)(x(x y)))))<BR>   (lambda(x)(x)x))<BR>  (lambda()(printf "Greetings, Jos~n"))))</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=gherson@snet.net href="mailto:gherson@snet.net">George Herson</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=plt-scheme@list.cs.brown.edu href="mailto:plt-scheme@list.cs.brown.edu">PLT-Scheme mailing list</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, April 26, 2007 3:44 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [plt-scheme] setting a var whose name is det'ed at runtime (newb)</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV>(set! (get-name) (car some-list)) <BR>returns "set!: not an identifier in: (get-name)".  I<BR>think this behavior is required by lexical scoping, in<BR>which case, How do we set a variable whose name is<BR>dynamically determined?  thanks<BR>_________________________________________________<BR>  For list-related administrative tasks:<BR>  <A href="http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-scheme">http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-scheme</A><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>