"Jose A. Ortega Ruiz" <j...@gnu.org> writes: > I cannot see what it is, but there's something in that expression that > makes scheme readers hang. I just pasted it in a vanilla guile repl > (started with run-scheme, no geiser involved), and it never gets > evaluated. The same thing happens with a MIT scheme vanilla repl. And > the same thing happens if i try to evaluate it in a guile repl in a > terminal, so it's not even emacs fault. Maybe there's some non-ascii > char in there? In fact, the scheme readers hang somewhere in the middle > of the let, because i can remove characters from the end and they never > discover that the expression is unbalanced....
Thanks Jao; the plot thickens... The line length is quite close to 4K; I wonder if that could be relevant? Anyway, I will also check for odd characters... Neil