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environments

User defined first-class environments for dynamically evaluated or interpreted code.

(Note: this egg is obsolete - the internal representation of evaluation environments changed with CHICKEN version 4.7.4 and is not any longer supported by this extension. There is currently no replacement for the functionality this extension provides, but it is planned to create one.)

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  2. environments
    1. Documentation
      1. make-environment
      2. environment-copy
      3. environment?
      4. interaction-environment?
      5. environment-empty?
      6. environment-extendable?
      7. environment-has-binding?
      8. environment-includes?
      9. environment-mutable?
      10. environment-set-mutable!
      11. environment-ref
      12. environment-set!
      13. environment-extend!
      14. environment-remove!
      15. environment-symbols
      16. environment-for-each
    2. Examples
    3. Author
    4. Changelog
    5. License

Documentation

This extension provides procedures for creating and manipulating evaluation environments. An extension of the Unit eval API.

An evaluation environment can be passed as the second argument to the eval procedure.

Environments can optionally be extendable (evaluated code may create new bindings), and selected variables may be mutable or immutable.

The (interaction-environment) is a special case. All symbols are mutable but the environment itself is not mutable.

These environments do not handle syntactic keywords, only normal global variables; i.e. No Macros!

make-environment

[procedure] (make-environment [EXTENSIBLE?])

Returns a fresh, empty environment. If EXTENSIBLE? is #t, then evaluated code can create new bindings inside this environment.

EXTENSIBLE? is boolean. Default is #f.

environment-copy

[procedure] (environment-copy ENV [EXTENSIBLE? [SYMBOLS [MUTABLE?]]])

Returns a copy of the environment ENV.

EXTENSIBLE? is a boolean. Default is #f.

SYMBOLS is a list of symbol, or #f. Default is #f.

MUTABLE? is a boolean. Default is EXTENSIBLE?.

If EXTENSIBLE? is #t, then evaluated code can create new variable bindings inside the environment.

If SYMBOLS is not #f, then the environment copy will only contain those symbols from the environment ENV. Otherwise a full copy is made.

If MUTABLE? is #t, then evaluated code can set the copied bindings in the environment. If EXTENSIBLE? is not supplied then the copied variable's mutable property is used.

Note that the only way to supply a MUTABLE? value is to supply an EXTENSIBLE? value.

environment?

[procedure] (environment? X) => boolean

Is X an evaluation environment?

interaction-environment?

[procedure] (interaction-environment? X) => boolean

Is X the interaction-environment?

environment-empty?

[procedure] (environment-empty? ENV) => boolean

Is the environment ENV sans bindings?

When ENV is the (interaction-environment) this procedure always returns #f.

environment-extendable?

[procedure] (environment-extendable? ENV) => boolean

Is the environment ENV extensible?

environment-has-binding?

[procedure] (environment-has-binding? ENV SYMBOL) => boolean

Is the variable SYMBOL bound in the environment ENV?

environment-includes?

[procedure] (environment-includes? ENV SYMBOL) => boolean

Is a variable SYMBOL in the environment ENV?

When ENV is the (interaction-environment) this procedure always returns #t.

environment-mutable?

[procedure] (environment-mutable? ENV SYMBOL) => boolean

Is the variable SYMBOL in environment ENV mutable?

When ENV is the (interaction-environment) this procedure always returns #t.

environment-set-mutable!

[procedure] (environment-set-mutable! ENV SYMBOL MUTABLE?)

Makes the variable SYMBOL in environment ENV mutable, if MUTABLE? is #t, immutable otherwise.

No effect when called with the (interaction-environment).

environment-ref

[procedure] (environment-ref ENV SYMBOL) => *

Returns the value of the variable SYMBOL in environment ENV.

If the environment does not contain the variable, or if the variable is not bound, an error is signaled.

environment-set!

[procedure] (environment-set! ENV SYMBOL VALUE)

Updates the binding SYMBOL in environment ENV with VALUE. A non-existent binding will be created as mutable.

It is an error to attempt to create a new binding in an inextensible environment.

Changing the value of an existing immutable variable will succeed.

environment-extend!

[procedure] (environment-extend! ENV SYMBOL [VALUE [MUTABLE?]])

Adds a new binding SYMBOL in environment ENV.

If the optional argument MUTABLE? is not given or #t, then the binding is mutable and can be changed by evaluating (set! VARIABLE ...).

The variable SYMBOL is initialized to VALUE, or is unbound, if VALUE is not given.

Here the creation of a new variable in an inextensible environment will succeed.

Changing the value of an immutable variable will succeed.

environment-remove!

[procedure] (environment-remove! ENV SYMBOLS [SILENT? [INEXTENSIBLE?]])

Removes bindings SYMBOLS in environment ENV.

SYMBOLS is a list of symbol, or a symbol.

SILENT? is a boolean. Default is #f.

INEXTENSIBLE? is a boolean. Default is #t.

Wiil not remove from an inextensible environment, unless INEXTENSIBLE? is #t.

It is an error to attempt to remove an undefined symbol, unless SILENT? is #t.

It is an error to attempt to remove from an inextensible environment when INEXTENSIBLE? is #f, unless SILENT? is #t.

environment-symbols

[procedure] (environment-symbols ENV) => list

Returns a list of the symbols in the given environment.

environment-for-each

[procedure] (environment-for-each ENV PROC)

Calls PROC with each binding in the given environment.

PROC is a (procedure (symbol *)) where the first argument is the variable name and the second is the value.

Examples

 
(use environments)

; create an immutable environment with all R5RS procedures:
(define my-env
(environment-copy (scheme-report-environment 5) #f) )

(eval '(set! car 99) my-env)
 => ; .. Error

(eval '(define abc 100) my-env)
 => ; .. Error

(environment-extend! my-env 'abc 100)

(eval 'abc my-env)
 => 100
(eval '(set! abc 101) my-env)
(eval 'abc my-env)
 => 101

(environment-set-mutable! my-env 'abc #f)
(eval '(set! abc #f) my-env)
 => ; .. Error

Author

Felix Winkelmann

Kon Lovett

Changelog
1.6.2
obsoleted (the whole egg is obsolete)
1.6.0
Added interaction-environment? & environment-empty?. Added inextensible flag to environmet-remove!, [Kon Lovett]
1.53
Ported to Chicken 4
1.52
Minor code cleanup - no semantic changes [Kon Lovett]
1.51
1.5
Bug fix environment-set! [Kon Lovett]
1.4
environment-copy symbol filtering, extended interaction-environment support, added environment-symbols [Kon Lovett]
1.3
Fixed bug in environment-has-binding? [reported by Mario Domenech Goulart]
1.2
Added environment-for-each
1.1
Fixed bug in environment-includes? with the interaction-environment, added environment-mutable? and environment-extendable?
1.0
Initial release

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