This has been bothering people for a long time. You can find complaints about
it in the lists going 20 years back. In my opinion, it is a bug. Part of the
problem is that anything that is defined in boot-9.scm is public.
The builtin has never been documented. We should deprecate it and eventu
Hello list,
In SRFI-1 there is a list-index, and that is what is documented in the
guile manual. However, under modules/ice-9/boot-9.scm, there is a
list-index there too, and it behaves differently.
By default, the definitions of SRFI-1 are not available, but
everything under boot-9 is available.