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thanks
Zefram <zef...@fysh.org> writes:
> The guile-2.0.9 compiler doesn't preserve the distinctness of mutable
> objects that are referenced in code via the read-eval (#.) facility.
> (I'm not mutating the code itself, only quoted objects.)
I'm sorry that you've written code that assumes that this is allowed,
but in Scheme all literals are immutable.
> The interpreter, and for comparison guile-1.8, do preserve object
> identity, allowing read-eval to be used to incorporate direct object
> references into code.
It worked by accident in Guile 1.8, but there's simply no way to support
this robustly in an ahead-of-time compiler, which must serialize all
literals to an object file.
Thanks,
Mark
