From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andy Wingo Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Guile: What's wrong with this? Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:56:00 -0500 Message-ID: <87ty4bnq5a.fsf@pobox.com> References: <4F027F35.5020001@gmail.com> <1325603029.22166.YahooMailNeo@web37906.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <4F032C41.3070300@gmail.com> <877h17hjj2.fsf@netris.org> <1325687351.71432.YahooMailNeo@web37906.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <874nwbs9c4.fsf@pobox.com> <87ty4bfheq.fsf@netris.org> <87sjjvpav1.fsf@pobox.com> <87lipnfeqy.fsf@netris.org> <87fwfvp82u.fsf@pobox.com> <4F04B1A7.60003@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1325710576 9715 80.91.229.12 (4 Jan 2012 20:56:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 20:56:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Mark H Weaver , guile-devel@gnu.org To: Bruce Korb Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 04 21:56:12 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RiXsY-0007hp-Lm for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Jan 2012 21:56:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40853 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RiXsY-0004Wl-2D for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:56:10 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:39394) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RiXsU-0004Wg-NA for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:56:07 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RiXsT-0008UD-GO for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:56:06 -0500 Original-Received: from a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com ([74.115.168.62]:56766 helo=sasl.smtp.pobox.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RiXsT-0008U8-Aq for guile-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:56:05 -0500 Original-Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id F23FF8B2E; Wed, 4 Jan 2012 15:56:04 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=TndXvsZQS4YyRDYc6gYP+fBKaAU=; b=CwRssb vobvSFGkIwxuagf0HHOwd5dHY5iducGdTVsIb2S182ExvQZ2BWULp3MME9NjA0AK Xb6R1J393/pxkPlhZCMgmtsKaBRZEt5fIzmDYAGv9mpA45Zc4LoojUt/0/UlA/Nf aMmsq7NWDOuwGlDgHg+9d3s3EFyn+0wX0TA7k= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=PfMPEX0279WyMvbhH8KPq7VYox3iGbM9 xGwKsW2/1AmSUGYkRxHG5RMEiu6HAeduOP4SanhJ7n8VU5yt8/1zHY5RQMC6WFgt DACghQMAuYVmSU15KrBqnfGjkuy7dEfa3Bexfqi43/TD17rhBTPIfbUh+2XgPYF5 BlhUA+VE/T0= Original-Received: from a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9C0A8B2D; Wed, 4 Jan 2012 15:56:04 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from badger (unknown [70.63.131.22]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7B2AB8B2C; Wed, 4 Jan 2012 15:56:03 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <4F04B1A7.60003@gmail.com> (Bruce Korb's message of "Wed, 04 Jan 2012 12:08:07 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 83A85576-3716-11E1-9A05-65B1DE995924-02397024!a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 74.115.168.62 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:13298 Archived-At: On Wed 04 Jan 2012 15:08, Bruce Korb writes: > On 01/04/12 11:43, Andy Wingo wrote: >> The correct behavior is the status quo. We are considering adding a >> hack to produce different behavior for compatibility purposes. We don't >> have to worry about correctness in that case, only compatibility. IMO >> anyway :) > > It would be a nice added benefit if it worked as one would expect. I think that in this case, your expectations are just incorrect. I don't mean this rudely. I think you will be happier and more productive if you change your expectations in this regard to better match "reality" (the state of things, common practice, conventional Scheme wisdom, etc). Andy -- http://wingolog.org/