Re: [Chicken-users] set! on unbound variable

[Dan Leslie]

Sounds like a Chicken Bug, from the docs[‎0]:

> <_expression_> is evaluated, and the resulting value is stored in the location to which <variable> is bound. <Variable> must be bound either in some region enclosing the set! _expression_ or at top level. The result of the set! _expression_ is unspecified.

0: https://wiki.call-cc.org/man/4/The%20R5RS%20standard#assignments

-Dan

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From: Jinsong Liang

Sent: Friday, September 23, 2016 6:27 PM

To: chicken chicken

Subject: [Chicken-users] set! on unbound variable

Hi,

I have been tripped by the following mistake a few times:

(let ((hello 0))

    (set! helo 1))

I meant to set! on hello. However, due to a typo, I did set! on helo. This bug is extremely hard to debug to me. Is there a way to make Chicken give warning on this? Or how do you handle this issue?

I know probably using set! is not a good programming style. I found that in some situations it is hard to avoid set!.

Thank you!

Jinsong