Re: [Chicken-users] csc doesn't like functions with :'s, csi doesn't care

[felix winkelmann]

On Apr 4, 2005 4:13 PM, Damian M Gryski <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Mon, 04 Apr 2005, felix winkelmann wrote:
> 
> 
> > I'll change the compiler to issue a warning on keyword assignments,
> > but this will not change the general situation. Is this a serious problem
> > for you?
> 
>    Not at all -- I was just playing around with some scheme code and
>    noted the behaviour difference between csc/csi.  It was surprising
>    because guile/bigloo/s48 also didn't have any problems with the code,
>    so it looked to me like a bug in the chicken compiler.
> 
>    However, it appears keywords are incompatible with other
>    implementations. In this case, I think a warning is adequate to alert
>    someone that their code might work differently under the chicken
>    compiler.  I'm sure if somebody had a large amount of production
>    code to switch over, they'd prefer a '-disable-keywords' switch,
>    but that person isn't me :)
> 

I have changed the compiler to issue a warning and -strict does now
allow redefinition of keyword-symbols (also -r5rs).

(available in the current darcs repository)


cheers,
felix