Re: Scheme error message

[David Kastrup]

Urs Liska <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> I understand what this error message means:
>
> |guile> (1 2 3) standard input:98:1: In expression (1 2 3): standard
> input:98:1: Wrong type to apply: 1 ABORT: (misc-error) |
>
> But I'm at a loss with that:
>
> |guile> (1 . 2) standard input:82:1: In expression (1 . 2): standard
> input:82:1: Wrong number of arguments to 1 ABORT: (wrong-number-of-args) |
>
>
> ||
> Please, I don't want to know how to do it correctly (which I do) but
> what Scheme "thinks" in the second case: What kind of "1" is it that
> expects a "number of arguments"?

"Wrong number of arguments" is apparently Guile's phrasing for "bad
argument list".  Guile apparently never gets as far as checking whether
1 is callable.

-- 
David Kastrup