---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: James M. Lawrence <llmjjmll@gmail.com> Date: Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 5:21 PM Subject: Re: [armedbear-devel] variable-information? To: Erik Huelsmann <ehuels@gmail.com> On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 10:38 AM, Erik Huelsmann <ehuels@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi James,

Are you in a macro expansion environment? If that's the case, then we could quite easily make that available, I'm sure.

Could you provide a bit more detail on what your usecase is? (I'm not familiar with cltl2, I'm affraid)

Hi, Yes by environment I mean the &environment parameter to defmacro. The distributed version of lparallel uses variable-information to create closures which are executed on remote machines. Since at least four implementations offer variable-information (SBCL, CCL, LispWorks, Allegro), this technique amounts to a somewhat portable way to serialize closures. [Did you mean to respond to the list?] Regards, lmj