Gregory Marton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
The differences are not significant. I guess I wanted to make clear
in the test case that this isn't something to do with literal
rationals, and I didn't want the test case to be printing things to
the console.
OK, thanks for explaining that. I assu
Gregory Marton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The differences are not significant. I guess I wanted to make clear
> in the test case that this isn't something to do with literal
> rationals, and I didn't want the test case to be printing things to
> the console.
OK, thanks for explaining that. I
`or' and `and' are macros, and it doesn't work to pass them as
procedure arguments.
I forget for the moment what R5RS says; I suspect the above is not
allowed, and so perhaps Guile should detect it and report an error.
The detailed reason for this is Guile's memoization - but that's not
really t
The differences are not significant. I guess I wanted to make clear in the
test case that this isn't something to do with literal rationals, and I
didn't want the test case to be printing things to the console.
Thanks,
Grem
Gregory Marton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Hi folks,
I just wante
Gregory Marton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi folks,
>
> I just wanted to send in a test case for a bug that is fixed as of
> guile 1.8.2, but recently bit me, and it's just not that obvious to
> test for. It is essentially exposed in 1.8.1 by
> (let ((x 1/2))
> (display x)
> (equal?
Gregory Marton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi folks,
>
> I'm wondering what to make of this behavior, seen in both guile 1.8.1
> and 1.8.3, discovered by my colleague L. Brown Westrick, cc:ed above:
>
> guile> (define (apply2 f a b) (f a b))
> guile> (apply2 or #t #f)
> #t
> guile> (apply2 and #
Gregory Marton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi folks,
>
> I'm trying to write a meaningful comparison operator for
> procedures.
Out of interest, why?
> Clearly this wants more than procedure-source, because
> variables in the source may be bound to different values in the
> procedure-environme
