-BUGS
-
-This file contains bugs we haven't fixed yet, and some we have.
-The format is very simple (one bug per page):
-
-# line regexp
-
-1 bug NUMBER -- ONE-LINE-DESCRIPTION ^bug ([0-9]+) -- (.+)$
-2 reported-by: SOMEONE / DATE ^reported-by: ([^/]) */ *(.+)$
-3 fixed: DATE (for guile VERSION) ^fixed: (.+) .for guile (.+).$
-4+ OTHER-NOTES
-
-DATE is formatted YYYY-MM-DD, or "not-yet". Line numbering is zero-origin;
-line 0 is empty (newline always follows newpage (recognizable w/ "\f\n")).
-The suggested regexps can be used in a line-oriented parser.
-
-\f
-bug 0 -- no BUGS file
-reported-by: ttn / 2001-09-25
-fixed: 2001-09-30 (1.5.x, 1.7.x)
-
-bugs are good.
-
-\f
-bug 1 -- (debug-disable 'debug) has no effect if first form in ~/.guile
-reported-by: Sven.Hartrumpf@fernuni-hagen.de / 2001-08-31
-fixed: not-yet
-
-ttn sez:
-buggy behavior confirmed on both 1.5.x and 1.7.x.
-
-on the other hand, when second or later, the expected effect (disabling use of
-debugging evaluator) seems to be reflected when viewing the debug options. it
-could be that the bug is in display and not the actual setting.
-
-\f
-bug 2 -- documentation mirroring not complete
-reported-by: lord@regexps.com / 2001-08
-fixed: not-yet
-
-ttn sez:
-uncollated mirroring is already available:
-http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/guile/
-http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/guile-devel/
-
-\f
-bug 3 -- design decisions not recorded
-reported-by: lord@regexps.com / 2001-08
-fixed: not-yet
-
-changes are made w/ little documentation on their motivation, design and
-consequences. past initiatives and current maintainer discipline to support
-them need shoring up.
-
-ttn sez:
-someone also mentioned that process and product are orthogonal; nastiness can
-result in/from either, and for different reasons. i tend to believe this up
-until a certain point, when the process becomes self-aware and includes its own
-improvement in its considerations. then, hopefully it becomes light.
-
-to change people is difficult, but that's why we have guile...
-
-\f
-bug 4 -- named-let transform evaluates initvalue in the wrong scope
-reported-by: agj@alum.mit.edu / 2001-09-21
-fixed: not-yet
-
-currently:
-> (let name ((var init) ...) body ...)
->
-> to
->
-> (letrec ((name (lambda (var ...) body ...)))
-> (name init ...))
-
-should be:
-> ((letrec ((name (lambda (var ...) body ...))) name) init ...)
-
-Dirk Herrmann sez:
-I will do it - no big deal (I hope). But, I won't have time to do it
-before next week. What about adding this code as a test case to the test
-suite? Until it is fixed, it can be tagged as expected to fail.
-
-\f
-bug 5 -- uniform vector read-hash "e" clashes w/ exactness specification
-reported-by: kwright@gis.net / 2001-10-07
-fixed: 2001-10-14 (1.5.x, 1.7.x)
-
-Keith Wright sez:
-> Before getting into philosophy, I want to mention that while poking
-> around and rethinking I found the following Bug.
->
-> guile> (version)
-> "1.5.2"
-> guile> #E3
-> 3
-> guile> #e3
-> ERROR: read:uniform-vector list not found
-> ABORT: (misc-error)
-> guile> 3
->
-> This violates both R5RS 7.1 ``Case is insignificant'' and
->
-> > From: guile-1.5.2/doc/ref/guile.info-3 Line 568
-> >
-> > The codes for indicating exactness (which can, incidentally, be
-> > applied to all numerical values) are:
-> >
-> > * `#e', `#E' -- the number is exact
-
-2001-10-14 Mikael Djurfeldt <mdj@linnaeus>
-
- * read.c (scm_lreadr): When user-defined hash procedure returns
- SCM_UNSPECIFIED: Fall back to standard handling instead of raising
- an exception. (This prevents parsing of uniform vectors from
- interfering with parsing of numbers.)
-
-\f
-bug 6 -- exactness prefix doesn't do nothing gracefully
-reported-by: kwright@gis.net / 2001-10-09
-fixed: 2001-10-14 (1.5.x, 1.7.x) (see bug 5)
-
-[this may be related to bug 5. --ttn]
-
-Keith Wright sez:
-> The saga continues...
->
-> > > The codes for indicating exactness (which can, incidentally, be
-> > > applied to all numerical values) are:
-> > >
-> > > * `#e', `#E' -- the number is exact
->
-> guile> #E3 ==> 3
-> guile> #E3.0
-> ERROR: In procedure scm_lreadr:
-> ERROR: unknown # object
->
-> Better change the reference manual s/, incidentally,/'t/.
->
-> (That's a joke son. The Scheme language requires #e in front
-> of any number to at least do nothing successfully.)
-
-\f
-bug 7 -- readline configuration anomolies not handled gracefully
-reported-by: kwright@gis.net / 2001-10-17
-fixed: not-yet
-
-\f
-bug 8 -- install requires makeinfo
-reported-by: kwright@gis.net / 2001-10-17
-fixed: not-yet
-
-Keith Wright sez:
-> I got guile-1.5.4 and installed it on one machine with no problem.
-> On another I did ./configure;make as before and it died with:
->
-> > ...
-> > on.doc vports.doc weaks.doc symbols-deprecated.doc regex-posix.doc ramap.doc unif.doc filesys.doc posix.doc net_db.doc socket.doc | ./guile-snarf-docs-texi > guile.texi \
-> > || { rm guile.texi; false; }
-> > rm -f guile-procedures.txt
-> > makeinfo --force -o guile-procedures.txt guile.texi || test -f guile-procedures.txt
-> > /bin/sh: makeinfo: command not found
-> > make[1]: *** [guile-procedures.txt] Error 1
-> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/kwright/build/guile-1.5.4/libguile'
-> > make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
->
-> I get the impression that it is supposed to build without 'makeinfo',
-> if this is not so it should be mentioned in the README or INSTALL.
-
-\f
-bug 9 -- sibling threads not infinite looping
-reported-by: giraud@tif.inria.fr / 2001-09-24
-fixed: not-yet
-
-Manuel Giraud sez:
-> I've configure guile-1.5.4 '--with-threads' and '--with-modules' on a
-> "classical" Linux box and used this code that crash silently :
->
-> (use-modules (ice-9 threads))
->
-> (begin-thread
-> (let loop ()
-> (display "a")
-> (newline)
-> (loop)))
->
-> (begin-thread
-> (let loop ()
-> (display "b")
-> (newline)
-> (loop)))
-
-mdj sez:
-+ 2001-10-06 Mikael Djurfeldt <mdj@linnaeus>
-+
-+ These changes fixes a race condition in the Guile coop - pthread
-+ compatibility code.
-+
-+ * coop.c (mother_awake_p): New variable.
-+ (coop_create): Set mother_awake_p before creating or signalling
-+ mother; wait until mother is going to sleep before returning.
-+ (mother): Reset mother_awake_p before going to sleep.
-+
-
-ttn sez:
-crash still occurs w/ "guile -s bug.scm" (cvs checkout on 2001/11/06).
-however, "guile -l bug.scm" works as expected.
-
-\f
-bug 10 -- embedded libltdl masks system version unconditionally
-reported-by: grib@linuxdevel.com / 2001-11-04
-fixed: not-yet
-
-Bill Gribble sez:
-> The guideline for when to use the convenience version of libltdl is
-> this:
->
-> > In general you can safely use the convenience library in
-> > programs which don't depend on other libraries that might
-> > use libltdl too.
->
-> So guile's use of the convenience library embodies an assumption about
-> programs which use guile: that they will not use libltdl except through
-> guile's wrapper (dynamic-link and friends).
->
-> It seems like this is a bad assumption for guile to make, since it is
-> intended to be used as an extension language for many different kinds of
-> programs and not to put a priori restrictions on what they can do.
-> Especially when those restrictions are not documented.
->
-> I would suggest that prior to the guile-1.6 release the use of the
-> convenience ltdl library be removed, instead depending on an installed
-> version of libltdl.
-
-\f
-bug 11 -- (ice-9 optargs) #:rest arg polluted by keys/values
-reported-by: ttn / 2001-11-09
-fixed: not-yet
-
-ttn sez:
-> the following code displays
->
-> (#<procedure good x> ())
-> (#<procedure good x> (1))
-> (#<procedure good x> ((1 2 3)))
-> (#<procedure blah x> JAY KAY (#:j JAY #:k KAY))
-> (#<procedure blah x> JAY KAY (#:j JAY #:k KAY 1))
-> (#<procedure blah x> JAY KAY (#:j JAY #:k KAY (1 2 3)))
->
-> but `x' should be the same for both `good' and `blah':
->
-> (use-modules (ice-9 optargs) (ice-9 rdelim))
->
-> (define* (good #:rest x)
-> (write-line (list good x)))
->
-> (good)
-> (good 1)
-> (good '(1 2 3))
->
-> (define* (blah #:key (j 'j) (k 'k) #:rest x)
-> (write-line (list blah j k x)))
->
-> (blah #:j 'JAY #:k 'KAY)
-> (blah #:j 'JAY #:k 'KAY 1)
-> (blah #:j 'JAY #:k 'KAY '(1 2 3))
-
-\f
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