Using guile 3.0.1 (also tested with 3.0.4) Consider following snippet ------ (define (outer-function) (define (inner-function q w e r t y) ;takes 6 args #f) (inner-function 'a 'b 'c 'd 'e)) ;send 5 args (outer-function) ------ The internally defined function is called with insufficient args. We'd expect error to be "Wrong number of arguments to inner-function" Instead the error is "Wrong number of arguments to a" Note if the invalid code is not internally-defined, the error is correct: "Wrong number of arguments to #"