From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mark H Weaver Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: Errors using Guile 2.0 vs. Guile 1.8 Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 17:57:49 -0500 Message-ID: <87lioqjevm.fsf@netris.org> References: <1327852458.3401.10.camel@homebase> <87ty3ejgbx.fsf@netris.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1327877956 20976 80.91.229.3 (29 Jan 2012 22:59:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 22:59:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-user@gnu.org To: psmith@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 29 23:59:15 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-user@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RrdiI-0001VF-TW for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Jan 2012 23:59:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40621 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RrdiI-0004BI-IE for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Jan 2012 17:59:10 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:48676) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RrdiE-0004B2-G0 for guile-user@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Jan 2012 17:59:07 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RrdiA-0006fb-1X for guile-user@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Jan 2012 17:59:06 -0500 Original-Received: from world.peace.net ([96.39.62.75]:60591) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rrdi9-0006fL-T9; Sun, 29 Jan 2012 17:59:01 -0500 Original-Received: from 209-6-91-212.c3-0.smr-ubr1.sbo-smr.ma.cable.rcn.com ([209.6.91.212] helo=yeeloong) by world.peace.net with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Rrdi4-0005kR-HM; Sun, 29 Jan 2012 17:58:56 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87ty3ejgbx.fsf@netris.org> (Mark H. Weaver's message of "Sun, 29 Jan 2012 17:26:26 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.92 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 96.39.62.75 X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:9213 Archived-At: Replying to myself... > The relevant difference is that in Guile 1.8, (define foo ...) returns > #, 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 #, and I hope we can fix that in 2.0.4. Thanks, Mark