[CM] reading text from file to eval (as in... the other way!)

Iain Duncan iainduncanlists at gmail.com
Tue Aug 31 16:06:15 PDT 2021


oh wow, I had not made the connection that it was that easy and I could
just do:
(set! _ (load "file"))

Scheme (and s7) just keeps making me happier!
thanks Bill!




On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 4:02 PM <bil at ccrma.stanford.edu> wrote:

> > I need to know the max file size
>
> You mean max-string-length, I think -- it defaults to 2^30.  There is no
> downside to making it as big as you want.
>
> Loading is not noticeably more expensive than evalling -- I would just
> load the file again to pick up the new data.  Maybe I misunderstand
> the context.
>
>
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