Re: Fix for guile-www/cgi.scm (cgi:make-cookie)

[Marius Vollmer]

Thien-Thi Nguyen <address@hidden> writes:

>    From: Thamer Al-Harbash <address@hidden>
>    Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 10:53:34 -0400 (EDT)
> 
>    This cgi::make-cookie breaks under guile-1.6 because it's using a
>    #&key and the (bound?) macro which seem to be no longer available
>    or depreciated. Please accept my patch below which fixes the
>    problem:
> 
> sounds like guile-1.6 breaks guile-www, not the other way around.

To clarify: 1.6 still supports the #& syntax but warns that it is
deprecated.  The 'bound?' macro has been removed since it was a bug to
expose SCM_UNDEFINED as a Scheme value.

> another idea if guile-1.6 has no desire to support #&foo, is to provide
> (ice-9 optargs-kw) as a simple wrapper/alias for its changed (ice-9
> optargs), at which point i would be happy to change guile-www to use
> (ice-9 optargs-kw) since that would be available in guile-1.4.x and 1.6.

We should just move forward and fix existing code in this case, like
Thamer did.

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