Re: bug in syncase

[Lynn Winebarger]

On Thursday 14 November 2002 06:59, Dirk Herrmann wrote:
> However, in (ice-9 syncase) there is one place where I don't know how to
> fix it correctly, namely in function putprop there is the following line:
>   (variable-set! v sc-macro)
> where sc-macro is a macro.  As a workaround, I have changed the line to
>   (variable-set! v 'sc-macro)
> but without being aware of the effects.  However, the test-suite almost
> completes flawlessly now.  (There is only goops and the elisp macros that 
> I have not yet worked on.)
> 
     I don't know the answer to your question, but according to Jim Blandy,
psyntax.ss is non-free.  You can redistribute it, but not modify it.  
     But apparently this is part of Guile's support functions rather than
psyntax.ss (just took a look).

Lynn