On Saturday, September 04, 2010 02:44:49 pm Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> Stefan Israelsson Tampe <stefan.tampe@spray.se> writes:
> > While eating the dogfood of the new match macro I come across a bug
> > e.g, this does not work!
> > 
> > (match '(a b) ((and x (a ... b)) a))
> 
> But:
> 
>   scheme@(guile-user)> (match '(a b) ((and x (a . b)) a))
>   $1 = a
> 
> According to the grammar in the manual, I don’t think literal ‘...’ can
> be used in the middle of a list; it should only be used at the end of a
> list, where it means “zero or more”:
> 
>   scheme@(guile-user)> (match '(a b) ((a ...) a))
>   $2 = (a b)
> 
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.

I Included a trailing pattern error message to match.scm in this patch.
/Stefan