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  • Re: a hardware Lisp interpreter

    From B. Pym@Nobody447095@here-nor-there.org to comp.lang.lisp,comp.lang.scheme on Sat Jul 19 03:58:28 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.lang.lisp

    Levi Campbell wrote:

    (defun lookup-variable (search-name)
    (loop for (name . value) in *variables* do
    (when (eql name search-name)
    (return-from lookup-variable value))))

    Gauche Scheme:

    (use srfi-42) ;; first-ec
    (use util.match)

    (define (lookup search-name)
    (first-ec #f
    (:list e Variables)
    (begin (match-define (name . value) e))
    (if (eqv? search-name name))
    value))
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