From: Stefan Israelsson Tampe <stefan.itampe@gmail.com>
To: reetindersidhu <reetindersidhu@pes.edu>
Cc: Guile User Mailing List <guile-user@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Error on returning a pair
Date: Fri, 8 May 2020 16:23:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGua6m3MqNGxxpOoxAAUM2VCbJgiF2nB+ZwtQ9PmechNBni5_Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5eb5511f.1c69fb81.6dbd8.6cda@mx.google.com>
(x . x) is not creating a pair, use (cons x x) or `(,x . ,x)
On Fri, May 8, 2020 at 4:16 PM reetindersidhu <reetindersidhu@pes.edu>
wrote:
> Hi
>
> Getting a guile error for
>
> (lambda (x) (x . x))
>
> but not for
>
> (lambda (x) (x x))
>
> This may be a dumb question, but why is this?
>
> Same behavior in versions 2.2.6 and 3.0.2.
>
> Regards
> Reetinder Sidhu
>
>
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2020-05-08 12:31 Error on returning a pair reetindersidhu
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