Andy Wingo writes:
>> Thirdly, "definition in expression context" is a confusing message for
>> Scheme beginners, who are likely to make this mistake.
>
> The problem is that I'm not sure that the error message you suggest is
> correct. You show:
>
>> (let ((x 1))
>> #f
>> (define blah
Hi Mark!
Thanks for tracking down this issue. I'm sure it will make it in 2.0.4,
but I do have a couple questions.
On Fri 27 Jan 2012 08:26, Mark H Weaver writes:
> So, what does this fix? The "definition in expression context" error
> message is broken in several ways. First of all, source
I wrote:
> So, what does this fix? The "definition in expression context" error
> message is broken in several ways. First of all, source location
> information is _never_ provided, [...]
Sorry, I meant to say "is _never_ provided if the rhs expression is an
atom".
Mark
definitions are not allowed in form (define blah 3)
Okay, here's the patch, with the syntax-pp.scm portion removed.
Mark
>From 278aed1c13ba183458a9e4cd6ec66df1dadf98c9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mark H Weaver
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 23:55:24 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Fix error me
