From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Shakthi Kannan" Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: make-hash-table: Wrong type argument Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 14:04:02 +0530 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1215658109 20016 80.91.229.12 (10 Jul 2008 02:48:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 02:48:29 +0000 (UTC) To: guile-user@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 10 04:49:15 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-user@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KGmDa-0005MN-Nf for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Jul 2008 04:49:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48330 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KGmCj-0001IX-A5 for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Jul 2008 22:48:21 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KGV7u-00048z-0x for guile-user@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Jul 2008 04:34:14 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KGV7t-00048f-3N for guile-user@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Jul 2008 04:34:13 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=40027 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KGV7s-00048c-U8 for guile-user@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Jul 2008 04:34:12 -0400 Original-Received: from yw-out-1718.google.com ([74.125.46.156]:1253) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KGV7s-0006sY-Id for guile-user@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Jul 2008 04:34:12 -0400 Original-Received: by yw-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 9so1221080ywk.66 for ; Wed, 09 Jul 2008 01:34:03 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :content-disposition; bh=vJX2nyh1viDWU2S4zIJ5sxjAWcDahQW6ZN0e8MW+4WU=; b=s1R+yHzCNWJUSt9Yr1ZwFr4ns08LppEgTO71M+96/0JKwmeiTxaVjJxrzF56jY/3Er MkUjuV8JqrjtshLXHZ9DATlJO+QsuyhQ2aJvPwZq+3mhiAkYmopRqUC44DOrRIlSPsAl 9Gm2k27rsvKYld/If/P0m0oJf5ftQlsvo1wI8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=g/4vxoZTld5V/F57XlSl9pLCLMw9JXpR6dVSH3rSHjfcnovzt4jO2FG0DuSZIjYytp W/LuRgPbyMZSbETVOKoY456N/c2XyemSWyN3f/pxIn0T5j/SGhIq8gBveI1fOJJMy/2N IG84nFv1s7Yv1minRxK1zX+CJBQf66V80uKM8= Original-Received: by 10.114.151.13 with SMTP id y13mr9022079wad.134.1215592442451; Wed, 09 Jul 2008 01:34:02 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.114.154.17 with HTTP; Wed, 9 Jul 2008 01:34:02 -0700 (PDT) Content-Disposition: inline X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 09 Jul 2008 22:47:18 -0400 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:6636 Archived-At: Hi, Newbie here. I am trying to pass key/value to a procedure to add it to the hash-table. It fails at: "you"ERROR: In procedure hash_fn_create_handle_x: ERROR: Wrong type argument in position 1: "foo" === BEGIN === #!/usr/local/bin/guile -s -e main -s !# (use-modules (ice-9 rdelim)) (define make-dictionary (lambda (name size) (lambda () (define name (make-hash-table size))))) (define add-to-dictionary (lambda (table key value) (write value) (hash-set! table key value))) (define (main args) (make-dictionary "foo" 4) (add-to-dictionary "foo" 'u "you") ) === END === What am I missing? Is this abstraction ok? Thanks! SK -- Shakthi Kannan http://www.shakthimaan.com