Re: Compiled S-Expressions

[Matthew Flatt <mflatt@cs.utah.edu>]

Quoting Brent Fulgham:
> When an s-expression has a side effect, such as
> 
> "(display "foo")"
> 
> and it is compiled using the C API's scheme_compile
> function, are the side effects still generated when
> the resulting compiled expression is evaluated?

Yes. (The side-effects are not generated when the expression is
compiled.)

> [...]
> 
> However, this doesn't compile because scheme_read_syntax is
> not exported in scheme.h.

Use scheme_read() instead of scheme_read_syntax().

scheme_read_syntax() is new, the first little step in the new
syntax/module system. It will be exported in the next release.

Matthew