Re: strange behaviour to me

[rm]

On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 10:49:22PM +0000, Mr. Peter Ivanyi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a strange situation (at least to me). "match:string"
> becomes unbound in a script. For example if I start guile from a shell prompt:
> 
> address@hidden $ guile
> guile> %load-path
> ("/home/peteri/temp/guile/install-1.5.4/share/guile/site"
> "/home/peteri/temp/guile/install-1.5.4/share/guile/1.5.4"
> "/home/peteri/temp/guile/install-1.5.4/share/guile" ".")
> guile> match:string
> #<procedure match:string (match)>
> guile> 
> 
> but from a script "match:string" is not bounded:
> 
> address@hidden $ cat cc.scm
> (display %load-path)(newline)
> match:string
> address@hidden $ guile -s cc.scm
> (/home/peteri/temp/guile/install-1.5.4/share/guile/site
> /home/peteri/temp/guile/install-1.5.4/share/guile/1.5.4
> /home/peteri/temp/guile/install-1.5.4/share/guile .)
> ERROR: Unbound variable: match:string
> address@hidden $ 
> 
> 
> I do not understand it. How can I have "match:string" in my script ???

The cause: if run interactively guiles default module is 'guile-user', if 
run from a script it is 'guile' (humpf!). Try the following:

|  bash-2.05$ guile
|  guile> match:string
|  #<procedure match:string (match)>
|  guile> (define-module (guile))             ; what is active when run as a 
script
|  #<module (guile) 8081620>
|  guile> match:string
|  ERROR: Unbound variable: match:string
|  ABORT: (unbound-variable)
|  guile> (define-module (guile-user))        ; back to interactive guile-user
|  #<directory (guile-user) 80835c0>
|  guile> match:string
|  #<procedure match:string (match)>
|  guile> 
|  

You need to import match:string from (ice-9 regex) if you want to use it from
within a script.

Hmm, thinking of it -- why is (ice-9 regex) loaded in (guile-user) ? 

  Ralf Mattes
> Thanx for your help in advance.
> 
>                               Peter Ivanyi
> 
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