What does #-3# mean?

2010-08-23 Thread Richard Shann
I am displaying a structure that seems to be circular, and it shows (x_LIST . #-3#) x_LIST is my own symbol but what is the meaning of the other member of the pair? And how does one track it down this notation in the guile manual? I am sure I came across this before, but cannot locate it in the

Re: Latest guile 1.9 segfault in GC

2010-08-23 Thread Cedric Cellier
-[ Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 09:16:15AM -0700, Andy Wingo ] > You're probably not hitting the compiler for some reason. I think that > scm_primitive_load doesn't support autocompilation, where it probably > should. Is that the function you're using to load your Scheme code? Ok, the file I load with

Re: thread safe functions

2010-08-23 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, ri...@happyleptic.org writes: >> The same goes for Scheme code. If you have found something in `format' >> that is not thread-safe, do let us know. > > Well, apparently for format this was already known, see the last sentence of > this old msg from Marius Vollmer : > > http://www.mail-archiv