From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Neil Jerram Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: Using a macro with FOLD alters FOLD procedure! Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 12:46:46 +0100 Message-ID: <4260FB26.4080607@ossau.uklinux.net> References: <56190b6c05041511382ae259d@mail.gmail.com> <1113594648.3650.8.camel@cslabpc3.evansville.edu> <56190b6c05041515205fd8b6a@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1113652951 21909 80.91.229.2 (16 Apr 2005 12:02:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 12:02:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Guile User List Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 16 14:02:28 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DMm0H-0007Ng-D1 for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Sat, 16 Apr 2005 14:02:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DMm3x-0004d9-MH for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Sat, 16 Apr 2005 08:06:13 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DMlwP-000271-TI for guile-user@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Apr 2005 07:58:26 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DMlwG-00023C-0m for guile-user@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Apr 2005 07:58:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DMlwF-0001vb-2e for guile-user@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Apr 2005 07:58:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.84.72.33] (helo=mail3.uklinux.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DMlmK-000541-Q8 for guile-user@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Apr 2005 07:48:00 -0400 Original-Received: from laruns (host81-130-189-32.in-addr.btopenworld.com [81.130.189.32]) by mail3.uklinux.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00E5E409FC4; Sat, 16 Apr 2005 11:46:55 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: from [127.0.0.1] (laruns [127.0.0.1]) by laruns (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BC9F6FF25; Sat, 16 Apr 2005 12:46:47 +0100 (BST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050324 Debian/1.7.6-1 X-Accept-Language: en Original-To: Steve Juranich In-Reply-To: <56190b6c05041515205fd8b6a@mail.gmail.com> X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:4380 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.user:4380 Steve Juranich wrote: > Well, speaking on the authority of being a Guile user, is this the > kind of behavior you want Guile to have? This is exactly the reason I > left Perl. There is no good reason to have silently failing software. > This is even worse, as what has happened is that the implementation > has been silently redefined!! > > I think that, at the very least, this is a bug in the documentation. > There should be all kinds of flashing red lights and sirens when this > kind of behavior is possible. > FWIW, I agree. In 1.7.x I believe we have more of the infrastructure in place to get this right - by which I mean to signal an error if a macro is passed in this way. But (having just tried your tests out on 1.7.x) it's not doing this just yet. Neil _______________________________________________ Guile-user mailing list Guile-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-user