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Re: Change to variable interface request


humeniuw@cadvision.com writes:
> I would like to have the following primitive added to
> variables:
> 
> (variable-bind-pair <pair>)  -----> #<variable>
> 
> The new variable would directly reference the pair
> for use within eval and such.  
> 
> e.g. 
> > (define x '(x . 3))
> > (define xvar (variable-bind-pair (cons 'x 3))
> #<variable name: x binding: 3>
> > (variable-set! xvar 10)
> > x
> (x . 10)
> 


In my opinion, it's a bad idea to expose the fact that Guile
implements variables as pairs to the user level. I suspect this
representation might change for certain classes of variables at least
when it comes time to tune Guile for speed.

 - Maciej