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Re: Elisp containers
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: Elisp containers |
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Sat, 08 Sep 2018 01:14:55 -0400 |
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> Potential applications:
> - true concurrency
> - safely running arbitrary Elisp code (e.g. bug#32495)
> - discover what a package defines without actually defining those things
> (i.e. load the package into a container, then look at what got
> defined and throw away the container).
Also, compilation of files that define macros, without altering the
overall Lisp environment.
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Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)