'((the . man) . (read . (the . ((side-effect . bad) . book))))
-and we said at the outset that the context `(the . (<> . book))` shouldn't need to know how to interact with affective meanings. That's precisely the problem we're trying to solve.
+and we said at the outset that the context `(the . (<> . book))` shouldn't need to know how to interact with affective meanings. (I'll use `<>` to indicate a "hole" in a larger expression.)
Let's use continuations
The idea here is we capture the continuation that the thunk `(damn)` has when it gets evaluated. This continuation is bound to the variable `k`. We supply `'id` as an argument to that continuation. When the main, at-issue tree is all built, then we return a pair `((side-effect bad) AT-ISSUE-TREE)`.
-However, this doesn't work. The reason is that an undelimited continuation represents the future of the evaluation of `(damn)` *until the end of the computation*. So when `'id` is supplied to `k`, we go back to building the at-issue tree until we're finished *and that's the end of the computation*. We never get to go back and evaluate the context `(cons (cons 'side-effect 'bad) <>)`.
+However, this doesn't work. The reason is that an undelimited continuation represents the future of the evaluation of `(damn)` *until the end of the computation*. So when `'id` is supplied to `k`, we go back to building the at-issue tree until we're finished *and that's the end of the computation*. We never get to go back and evaluate the application of `(cons (cons 'side-effect 'bad) <>)` to anything.
With undelimited continuations