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From: philip@warpmail.net (Philip K.)
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Cc: guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Weird Guile Scheme Behaviour
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2019 09:48:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87eezdb068.fsf@bulbul> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sgntqj0l.fsf@netris.org> (Mark H. Weaver's message of "Wed, 16 Oct 2019 02:52:15 -0400")

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Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> writes:

> The problem here is that '(start) is a *literal* list, and it's an error
> to modify literals in Scheme.  In other words, modifying a literal
> results in undefined behavior.  Like C string literals, Scheme literals
> are actually part of the program text itself.

Ah, that makes sense. I totally forgot about the difference between
'(start) and (list 'start).

>       Regards,
>         Mark

Thanks a lot for your response, helped my clear up understanding.

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	With kind regards,
	Philip K.

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      reply	other threads:[~2019-10-16  7:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-13  9:43 Weird Guile Scheme Behaviour Philip K.
2019-09-13 12:43 ` Neil Jerram
2019-09-13 17:22 ` Vladimir Zhbanov
2019-10-16  6:52 ` Mark H Weaver
2019-10-16  7:48   ` Philip K. [this message]

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