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From: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
To: Eric McDonald <mcdonald@phy.cmich.edu>
Cc: guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Interesting Behavior of 'append!' In Local Context
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 12:25:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m38wf9dmn3.fsf@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4ADA6319.1030004@phy.cmich.edu> (Eric McDonald's message of "Sat, 17 Oct 2009 20:36:41 -0400")

Hello Eric,

On Sun 18 Oct 2009 02:36, Eric McDonald <mcdonald@phy.cmich.edu> writes:

> Stephen Compall wrote:
>
>> It is an error to modify literals, but it is also not required by R5RS
>> to detect and inform of such erroneous modification.  It is, however,
>
> Fair enough. I certainly wouldn't mind seeing "detect and inform"
> implemented for this case.

That would be nice, yes. It should be fairly easy to implement for
vectors, strings, and arrays, for the upcoming Guile 2.0. Pairs are a
bit trickier, due to the way they are represented in Guile, though it
would be nice as well.

> Anyway, sorry to trouble the list with a noobish oversight.

No problem. Happy hacking :)

Andy
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2009-10-18 10:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-17 22:28 Interesting Behavior of 'append!' In Local Context Eric McDonald
2009-10-17 23:09 ` Stephen Compall
2009-10-18  0:36   ` Eric McDonald
2009-10-18  1:45     ` Stephen Compall
2009-10-18 13:53       ` Eric McDonald
2009-10-18 10:25     ` Andy Wingo [this message]

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