From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Bill Schottstaedt" Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.bugs Subject: Re: (< complex) and friends Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 06:23:57 -0700 Message-ID: <20080919132021.M10915@ccrma.Stanford.EDU> References: <20080811210230.M31889@ccrma.Stanford.EDU> <49dd78620808120218k62cb690aq6251f427fc078a9b@mail.gmail.com> <49dd78620809171437r739ec0cave11d0728165e6292@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1221830790 24189 80.91.229.12 (19 Sep 2008 13:26:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 13:26:30 +0000 (UTC) To: bug-guile@gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-guile-bounces+guile-bugs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 19 15:27:18 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-bugs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Kgg0h-0004Zh-Je for guile-bugs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Sep 2008 15:26:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51451 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kgfzf-0006Hx-Hy for guile-bugs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Sep 2008 09:25:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Kgfxq-0005a3-I1 for bug-guile@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Sep 2008 09:24:02 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Kgfxp-0005Zh-PL for bug-guile@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Sep 2008 09:24:02 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=50525 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kgfxp-0005Zd-Hq for bug-guile@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Sep 2008 09:24:01 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp3.stanford.edu ([171.67.20.26]:37568) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Kgfxp-0000Ef-Nt for bug-guile@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Sep 2008 09:24:01 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp3.stanford.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id AE66260EF50 for ; Fri, 19 Sep 2008 06:23:59 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from cm-mail.stanford.edu (cm-mail.Stanford.EDU [171.64.197.135]) by smtp3.stanford.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AFF760E4F1 for ; Fri, 19 Sep 2008 06:23:58 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from ccrma.stanford.edu (ccrma.stanford.edu [171.64.197.141]) by cm-mail.stanford.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m8JDNvLv029348 for ; Fri, 19 Sep 2008 06:23:57 -0700 Original-Received: from ccrma.Stanford.EDU (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ccrma.stanford.edu (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.5) with ESMTP id m8JDNvaw018866 for ; Fri, 19 Sep 2008 06:23:57 -0700 In-Reply-To: <49dd78620809171437r739ec0cave11d0728165e6292@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Open WebMail 2.41 20040926 X-OriginatingIP: 76.102.156.191 (bil) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.92.1/8287/Fri Sep 19 01:13:26 2008 on cm-mail.stanford.edu X-Virus-Status: Clean X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: bug-guile@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GUILE, GNU's Ubiquitous Extension Language" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-guile-bounces+guile-bugs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-guile-bounces+guile-bugs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.bugs:4004 Archived-At: map does not accept no list: guile> (map (lambda (a) a)) Backtrace: In standard input: 1: 0* [map #] standard input:1:1: In procedure map in expression (map (lambda # a)): standard input:1:1: Wrong number of arguments to # ABORT: (wrong-number-of-args) + and * have a "natural" identity (0 and 1), so it is not silly that (+ a) is (+ a 0) and (+) is (+ 0 0), but #t does not strike me as a natural identity for < -- (< 1 1) is #f. But I hate these kinds of discussions, so I defer...