Re: [guile/scwm] Information about guile error message

[Rob Browning]

P Pareit <address@hidden> writes:

> There are certain modules that I wish to load when scwm is running that give 
> me the following error message:
>
> ERROR: missing or extra expression

There's a fairly likely culprit I can't recall at the moment.  1.6.0
is stricter about various things (like not allowing () instead of
'()), and I think this may be a related "tightening" of the syntax
checker.

One thing that might help is to execute this before loading your other
files:

  (debug-enable 'backtrace)
  (debug-enable 'debug)
  (read-enable 'positions)

That may provide a lot more information about what happened where.
For some reason "let" is coming to mind here, but I can't recall what
might be stricter there.  Maybe I'm thinking of this:

  (let ((foo ())) ...)

which is now illegal, but I thought the error message was different
for that...

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Rob Browning
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