Re: Using '-1' in a method named '*'

[Andy Wingo]

On Tue 28 Feb 2017 15:24, Alejandro Sanchez <address@hidden> writes:

>> On 28 Feb 2017, at 10:19, Andy Wingo <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 
>> On Tue 28 Feb 2017 09:54, Andy Wingo <address@hidden> writes:
>> 
>>> In summary I think Guile's strength reduction is fine as it relies on
>>> type inference to prove when it is safe.  This is "just" a bug, albeit
>>> an annoying one that we need to fix!
>> 
>> Fixed in 2.0 and master.  Thanks for the report :)
>> 
>> Andy
>
> Great, than you. Do you have any approximation on when a release with
> that fix will happen, or am I better off getting the source and
> building myself? I would rather not mess around with building, but
> I’ll bit the bullet and build myself if that’s the way to go. I am
> currently on 2.0.14 because my package manager only offers the latest
> stable release.

2.2.0 should come soon (a couple weeks hopefully), but I don't know
about 2.0.14.  In the meantime if defining an implementation for "-"
works for you to handle negation, that's an OK workaround.

Andy