Re: null-environment 0

On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 05:59:23PM -0400, Alessandro Colomba wrote:
> On 3/20/07, Scott G. Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
> [...]
> >null-environment is part of R5RS, but according to R5RS, you must pass 5
> >as the version rather than 0.  We ignore that parameter, but for full
> >compatibility and future proofing, I would pass the 5.
> 
> Uhm, from the source code, it seems that 5 results in the standard
> null environment, 0 in a new, empty environment, and that any other
> code produces an exception. I'm looking at Primitives.java:413.
> 
> The addition of the 0 option seems to have been deliberate, hence my
> asking if the decision may be reverted in the future.

Ah.  I didn't remember doing that.  We'll just make that functionality 
official then.  If you don't mind submitting a bug for documenting that, 
I'll try and get that "fix" into the next release.

  Scott

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