From: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
To: 40294@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#40294: Documentation for arity procedures doesn't match behavior
Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2020 17:42:25 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAD2gp_QD9aBPeHAykqiD6agkYndrQFtqZMzY07VufcLZnH1PiQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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Interaction showing the problem
$ guile
GNU Guile 2.2.6
Copyright (C) 1995-2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Guile comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `,show w'.
This program is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; type `,show c' for details.
Enter `,help' for help.
scheme@(guile-user)> (use-modules (system vm program))
scheme@(guile-user)> program-arities
ERROR: Unbound variable: program-arities. ; should be defined
Entering a new prompt. Type `,bt' for a backtrace or `,q' to continue.
scheme@(guile-user)> (arity:nreq +) ; 0 arguments required, correct
$1 = 0
scheme@(guile-user)> (arity:rest? +) ; rest argument, correct
$2 = #f
scheme@(guile-user)> (arity:nreq car) ; 1 argument required, bad
$3 = 0
scheme@(guile-user)> (program-arguments-alist car) ; correct
$4 = ((required _) (optional) (keyword) (allow-other-keys? . #f) (rest .
#f))
scheme@(guile-user)>
The same thing happens in Guile 3, and on both Mac and Linux.
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2020-03-28 21:42 John Cowan [this message]
2021-05-16 0:07 ` bug#40294: Documentation for arity procedures doesn't match behavior Taylan Kammer
2021-05-16 15:26 ` Taylan Kammer
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