MIT Scheme's (load ...) procedure apparently takes in an environment as a parameter. Is there any way I could "clone" the current environment and pass it there, so that I can isolate the file's environment from my own?
(I've looked here but I haven't found anything...)
How about something like this ?
(define (clone-env env)
(let ((bindings (environment-bindings env)))
(make-top-level-environment (map car bindings)
(map cadr bindings))))
1 ]=> (define foo 1)
;Value: foo
1 ]=> (eq? (the-environment) (clone-env (the-environment)))
;Value: #f
Edited to add:
I'm not exactly sure what you are trying to do, but here's what I did to test the above. I created a file foo.scm containing:
(set! foo 2)
(define baz (+ foo foo))
baz
Then,
1 ]=> (define foo 1)
;Value: foo
1 ]=> (load "foo.scm" (clone-env (the-environment)))
;Loading "foo.scm"... done
;Value: 4
1 ]=> foo
;Value: 1
1 ]=> baz
;Unbound variable: baz
;To continue, call RESTART with an option number:
; (RESTART 3) => Specify a value to use instead of baz.
; (RESTART 2) => Define baz to a given value.
; (RESTART 1) => Return to read-eval-print level 1.
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