---------- 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.

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Regards, lmj