how to locally eval??

["Daniel Lakeland" <dlakelan@hotmail.com>]

This is probably an issue for the eventual usage of guile-lang, but for 
me it arised because I wanted to generate code and eval it on the fly 
from input from a file...

something like this

(let
 ((somevar (getline))
  (someval (getline)) 
...
(local-eval `(set! ,(string->symbol somevar) ,someval))

the idea being that somevar is a local variable, which contains the 
result of reading in some variable name from a file, and someval is some 
string read from a file.

suppose for example that all the names that could arise from 
(string->symbol somevar) have been bound..

I've been reading the docs, and this is the closest I got to being able 
to do what I'm trying to do. The docs have the procedure named 
"local-eval!" but that's wrong according to the interpreter.

when I do such a thing, it complains about an improperly interned 
symbol... ??? 

any help or suggestions??? 

thanks,
Dan Lakeland






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