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From: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
To: psmith@gnu.org
Cc: guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Errors using Guile 2.0 vs. Guile 1.8
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 17:57:49 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lioqjevm.fsf@netris.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ty3ejgbx.fsf@netris.org> (Mark H. Weaver's message of "Sun, 29 Jan 2012 17:26:26 -0500")

Replying to myself...

> The relevant difference is that in Guile 1.8, (define foo ...) returns
> #<unspecified>, but in Guile 2 it returns the 'variable' object for
> 'foo'.

I actually think that this qualifies as a bug in Guile, so please don't
depend on this behavior.  Ideally, (define foo ...) should always return
#<unspecified>, and I hope we can fix that in 2.0.4.

    Thanks,
      Mark



  reply	other threads:[~2012-01-29 22:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-29 15:54 Errors using Guile 2.0 vs. Guile 1.8 Paul Smith
2012-01-29 21:18 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2012-01-29 21:51   ` Paul Smith
2012-01-29 22:26 ` Mark H Weaver
2012-01-29 22:57   ` Mark H Weaver [this message]
2012-01-30  0:17     ` Paul Smith
2012-01-30  1:16       ` Mark H Weaver
2012-01-30  1:42         ` Paul Smith
2012-01-30 11:06     ` Andy Wingo

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