On Thu, Nov 15 2018, Neil Jerram wrote: > "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?
Hmm, I'd be a bit surprised if both Guile and MIT had that same (or similar) limitation, or if it were inherited somehow from Emacs' comint mode, but it's happening also in a terminal... > > Anyway, I will also check for odd characters... > > Neil > -- One reason that life is complex is that it has a real part and an imaginary part. -Andrew Koenig
