Re: Data length limit in Guile/Geiser/Scheme evaluation

["Jose A. Ortega Ruiz" <jao-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org>]

On Thu, Nov 15 2018, Neil Jerram wrote:

> "Jose A. Ortega Ruiz" <jao-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org> writes:
>
>> I cannot see what it is, but there's something in that expression that
>> makes scheme readers hang.  I just pasted it in a vanilla guile repl
>> (started with run-scheme, no geiser involved), and it never gets
>> evaluated.  The same thing happens with a MIT scheme vanilla repl.  And
>> the same thing happens if i try to evaluate it in a guile repl in a
>> terminal, so it's not even emacs fault.  Maybe there's some non-ascii
>> char in there?  In fact, the scheme readers hang somewhere in the middle
>> of the let, because i can remove characters from the end and they never
>> discover that the expression is unbalanced....
>
> Thanks Jao; the plot thickens...
>
> The line length is quite close to 4K; I wonder if that could be
> relevant?

Hmm, I'd be a bit surprised if both Guile and MIT had that same (or
similar) limitation, or if it were inherited somehow from Emacs' comint
mode, but it's happening also in a terminal...

>
> Anyway, I will also check for odd characters...
>
>     Neil
>

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