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From: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
To: guile-devel <guile-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: r6rs incompatibilities
Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 11:54:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3ljbd1swt.fsf@pobox.com> (raw)

Hi,

While I'm thinking about it, I thought I'd mention a couple of
incompatibilities between Guile and R6RS:

 * In r6rs, internal definitions expand to letrec*, not letrec. Guile
   does not support letrec*, though that would be nice.

 * The R6RS specifies many situations in which a conforming
   implementation must signal a specific error. Guile doesn't really
   care about that too much -- if a correct R6RS program would not hit
   that error, we don't bother checking for it.

 * Multiple `library' forms in one file are not yet supported. This is
   because the expansion of `library' sets the current module, but does
   not restore it. This is a bug I think.

 * I'm sure there are other points -- please test and reply :)

Andy
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             reply	other threads:[~2010-05-21  9:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-21  9:54 Andy Wingo [this message]
2010-05-21 12:47 ` r6rs incompatibilities Julian Graham
2010-05-21 17:15   ` Andy Wingo
2010-05-23 15:35 ` Julian Graham
2010-05-23 16:02   ` Mike Gran
2010-05-23 17:24     ` Julian Graham
2010-05-23 20:52       ` Andy Wingo
2010-05-23 21:26         ` Andy Wingo
2010-05-26 13:02           ` Julian Graham
2010-05-26 13:21             ` Andy Wingo
2010-05-26 16:43               ` Ludovic Courtès
2010-05-27  8:06                 ` Andy Wingo

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