Re: First-class environments
Pascal Costanza <[email protected]>
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On 5 Apr 2006, at 20:28, Michael Vanier wrote: > What I'd like to know are: 1) What are the best/most important/most > famous papers on this subject? Here are some papers that I am aware of: - Franz Achermann, Oscar Nierstrasz, Explicit Namespaces - David Gelernter, Suresh Jagannathan, Environments as First Class Objects - Christian Queinnec, David DeRoure, Sharing Code through First-class Environments > 2) What are peoples' opinions on this? I'd especially like to hear > about elegant coding idioms using first-class environments and also > horror stories (if any). For instance, are there certain important > language features or optimizations that first-class environments > make impossible? Joe has already responded to this. It should be possible to restrict the negative effects of first-class environments to those parts of a program, where a lexical environment is actually reified, shouldn't it? Pascal -- Pascal Costanza, mailto:[email protected], http://p-cos.net Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Programming Technology Lab Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 Brussel, Belgium