Re: psyntax error reporting bug

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello!

Julian Graham <address@hidden> writes:

> I'm no psyntax expert, but it looks like there's a minor typo in our
> psyntax implementation.  In psyntax.scm, at line 1325 (in
> `chi-macro'), the expression:
>
> (syntax-violation #f "encountered raw symbol in macro output"
> (source-wrap e w s mod) x)
>
> ...should read:
>
> (syntax-violation #f "encountered raw symbol in macro output"
> (source-wrap e w (wrap-subst w) mod) x)
>
> ...since `s' is not actually in scope

I actually noticed that when testing ‘-Wunbound-variable’:

  ice-9/psyntax-pp.scm:1089:38: warning: possibly unbound variable `s'

But I didn’t take the time to investigate, so I’m glad you did.  :-)

> -- which, with the former code, generates an error that obscures the
> actual syntax violation.  I can prepare a patch if people want.

Andy is the expert, but I think such a patch can’t hurt, so please do!

Thanks,
Ludo’.