* quote oddity
@ 2011-04-01 21:38 Bill Schottstaedt
2011-04-01 22:29 ` dsmich
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From: Bill Schottstaedt @ 2011-04-01 21:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: bug-guile
Does this strike you guys as kind of odd?
guile> ((lambda (s c) (s c)) quote #f)
c
guile> ((lambda (q) (let ((x 1)) (q x))) quote)
x
I can't decide what I think.
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* Re: quote oddity
2011-04-01 21:38 quote oddity Bill Schottstaedt
@ 2011-04-01 22:29 ` dsmich
2011-04-01 22:53 ` Bill Schottstaedt
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From: dsmich @ 2011-04-01 22:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Bill Schottstaedt, bug-guile
---- Bill Schottstaedt <bil@ccrma.Stanford.EDU> wrote:
> Does this strike you guys as kind of odd?
>
> guile> ((lambda (s c) (s c)) quote #f)
> c
> guile> ((lambda (q) (let ((x 1)) (q x))) quote)
> x
>
> I can't decide what I think.
Well, quote is syntax. You can't pass it around like a function. Guile 2.0 fixes that:
scheme@(guile-user)> ((lambda (s c) (s c)) quote #f)
While compiling expression:
ERROR: Syntax error:
unknown location: quote: bad syntax in form quote
scheme@(guile-user)> ((lambda (q) (let ((x 1)) (q x))) quote)
While compiling expression:
ERROR: Syntax error:
unknown location: quote: bad syntax in form quote
-Dale
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* Re: quote oddity
2011-04-01 22:29 ` dsmich
@ 2011-04-01 22:53 ` Bill Schottstaedt
2011-04-02 0:19 ` Andy Wingo
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From: Bill Schottstaedt @ 2011-04-01 22:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: dsmich, bug-guile
> Well, quote is syntax. You can't pass it around like a function. Guile 2.0 fixes that:
that's an improvement?
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* Re: quote oddity
2011-04-01 22:53 ` Bill Schottstaedt
@ 2011-04-02 0:19 ` Andy Wingo
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From: Andy Wingo @ 2011-04-02 0:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Bill Schottstaedt; +Cc: bug-guile
On Sat 02 Apr 2011 00:53, "Bill Schottstaedt" <bil@ccrma.Stanford.EDU> writes:
>> Well, quote is syntax. You can't pass it around like a function. Guile 2.0 fixes that:
>
> that's an improvement?
I *think* so. I think we can agree that in general uniformity is
better, and this case certainly has that property.
I don't know how supporting first-class syntax could help anything in
this case.
Andy
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