It appears that string=? now requires a string argument (Imagine that!) which causes the syncase module to hork. I'm not sure if string=? should return #f on a non-string argument or if the code in syncase.scm needs to verify a string before using string=?. Below is a patch that adds test before using string=? It seems to work for me. -Dale dsmith@sammy:~/src/guile$ guile guile> (use-modules (ice-9 syncase)) Backtrace: 12 (or (try-module-linked name) (try-module-autoload name) ...) 13* [try-module-autoload (ice-9 syncase)] 14 (let* (# # # #) (resolve-module dir-hint-module-name #f) (and # #)) ... 15 (let ((didit #f)) (dynamic-wind (lambda () #) (lambda () #) ...) ...) 16* [dynamic-wind #<procedure ()> #<procedure ()> #<procedure ()>] 17* [#<procedure ()>] 18* (let ((full #)) (if full (begin # #))) 19 (if full (begin (save-module-excursion (lambda () #)) (set! didit #t))) 20 (begin (save-module-excursion (lambda () #)) (set! didit #t)) 21* [save-module-excursion #<procedure ()>] 22 (let (# #) (dynamic-wind # thunk #)) 23 [dynamic-wind #<procedure ()> #<procedure ()> #<procedure ()>] 24* [#<procedure ()>] 25* [primitive-load "/usr/local/share/guile/1.4.1/ice-9/syncase.scm"] 26* (define-public syncase sc-expand) 27 (begin (let # # #) (eval # #)) ... 28 [eval ... 29* (if (and (pair? x) (string=? (car x) "noexpand")) (cadr x) (sc-expand x)) 30* (and (pair? x) (string=? (car x) "noexpand")) 31 [string=? define-private "noexpand"] /usr/local/share/guile/1.4.1/ice-9/syncase.scm:158:27: In procedure string=? in expression (string=? (car x) "noexpand"): /usr/local/share/guile/1.4.1/ice-9/syncase.scm:158:27: Wrong type argument in position 1 (expecting STRINGP): define-private ABORT: (wrong-type-arg) guile> Patch follows: Index: syncase.scm =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/guile/guile-core/ice-9/syncase.scm,v retrieving revision 1.16 diff -c -r1.16 syncase.scm *** syncase.scm 2000/09/12 10:34:09 1.16 --- syncase.scm 2000/10/28 20:03:12 *************** *** 155,160 **** --- 155,161 ---- (define-public (eval x environment) (internal-eval (if (and (pair? x) + (string? (car x)) (string=? (car x) "noexpand")) (cadr x) (sc-expand x)) _______________________________________________ Bug-guile mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-guile