From: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>, bug-guile@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug #30169] Auto-compilation failure of a module doesn't lead to a failure [1.9.11]
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2010 22:19:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3lja9cv8w.fsf@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100620-142300.sv15145.70745@savannah.gnu.org> ("Ludovic Courtès"'s message of "Sun, 20 Jun 2010 14:23:00 +0000")
Hi,
On Sun 20 Jun 2010 16:23, Ludovic Courtès <INVALID.NOREPLY@gnu.org> writes:
>> So, you want Guile to fail faster for this error; how do you distinguish
>> it from eval-when errors as above? Or would you prefer that eval-when
>> errors lead to failures as well?
>
> Do you mean that, for programs written to be interpreted, which lack proper
> ‘eval-when’ clauses, the idea was to fall back to interpretation when
> auto-compilation fails? That would indeed be friendlier to programs written
> for previous versions of Guile.
Yes, that was the goal.
> However, in the example I gave, somehow, an error should occur. With 1.8 you
> would get an error when reading ‘foo.scm’, whereas here it’s just
> silently ignored, which sounds wrong.
Indeed.
Andy
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-20 20:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-17 13:06 [bug #30169] Auto-compilation failure of a module doesn't lead to a failure [1.9.11] Ludovic Courtès
2010-06-18 8:32 ` Andy Wingo
2010-06-18 14:52 ` Ludovic Courtès
2010-06-18 17:03 ` Andy Wingo
2010-06-20 14:23 ` Ludovic Courtès
2010-06-20 20:19 ` Andy Wingo [this message]
2010-06-25 15:29 ` Andy Wingo
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