[Chicken-users] Unmentioned deviation from R5RS?

[Yi DAI]

Hi, All,

I recently found a deviation from the R5RS in CHICKEN which is not mentioned in the user manual. In R5RS section 3.4, it states as follows:

In such systems literal constants and the strings returned by symbol->string are immutable objects, while all objects created by the other procedures listed in this report are mutable. It is an error to attempt to store a new value into a location that is denoted by an immutable object.

However, I found that in CHICKEN, the string returned by symbol->string is mutable via string-set!. According to the lines above, "it is an error", thus CHICKEN simply choose not to report it and silently perform the erroneous operation?

regards,

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