Re: [Chicken-hackers] Made a start with CHICKEN 5 proposal

[Arthur Maciel]

2014-08-26 14:30 GMT-03:00 John Cowan <address@hidden>:

Mario Domenech Goulart scripsit:

> I remember there is another breaking change that maybe we can fix in
> CHICKEN 5: the behavior of set! on unbound variables.

R7RS takes an intermediate position between R5RS (allowed) and R6RS
(forbidden): it's allowed in the REPL, but forbidden in a module.

> I personally don't like that behavior.  It can lead to some subtle and
> hard to find bugs (specially for bad typists like me).

+1

+1