In 3.0.7, this:
(define-syntax foo (syntax-rules () ((_ x) (eq? #nil x)))) (foo #t) began crashing like this: ice-9/psyntax.scm:2795:12: In procedure syntax-violation: Syntax error: unknown location: unexpected syntax in form () git bisect suggested the source of the trouble might be this change: commit 0cc799185576712d69f11fc794454f2f5447bef7 Date: Thu Feb 25 09:33:15 2021 +0100 Ensure that (syntax ()) results in () * module/ice-9/psyntax.scm: Add a special case for (). There are already special cases for pairs, vectors, etc; the issue is that with read-syntax, the () might be come into psyntax as an annotated syntax object, which here we would want to strip, to preserve the invariant to psyntax users that all lists are unwrapped. And this change to the same code appears to fix the problem, while still passing all the existing tests (the assumption being that we might need to special case #nil too): diff --git a/module/ice-9/psyntax.scm b/module/ice-9/psyntax.scm index 663d9275a..bd4bd6723 100644 --- a/module/ice-9/psyntax.scm +++ b/module/ice-9/psyntax.scm @@ -2157,6 +2157,7 @@ (lambda () (gen-syntax src #'(e1 e2 ...) r maps ellipsis? mod)) (lambda (e maps) (values (gen-vector e) maps)))) + (x (eq? (syntax->datum #'x) #nil) (values '(quote #nil) maps)) (() (values '(quote ()) maps)) (_ (values `(quote ,e) maps)))))) diff --git a/test-suite/tests/syntax.test b/test-suite/tests/syntax.test index a2999ac43..510e7104d 100644 --- a/test-suite/tests/syntax.test +++ b/test-suite/tests/syntax.test @@ -1684,6 +1684,16 @@ (hash interpreted most-positive-fixnum) (hash compiled most-positive-fixnum)))) +(with-test-prefix "#nil in syntaxes" + (pass-if-equal "does not crash" + 42 + (let () + (define-syntax foo + (syntax-rules () + ;; In 3.0.7 this would crash with + ;; unknown location: unexpected syntax in form () + ((_ x) (when (eq? x #nil) 42)))) + (foo #nil)))) ;;; Local Variables: ;;; eval: (put 'pass-if-syntax-error 'scheme-indent-function 1) So I wondered whether this might be a plausible fix. (I originally noticed because it breaks lokke, which like the elisp dialect, depends more heavily on #nil.) Thanks -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org GPG as of 2011-07-10 E6A9 DA3C C9FD 1FF8 C676 D2C4 C0F0 39E9 ED1B 597A GPG as of 2002-11-03 14DD 432F AE39 534D B592 F9A0 25C8 D377 8C7E 73A4