Re: Using a macro with FOLD alters FOLD procedure!

[Neil Jerram]

Steve Juranich wrote:

> Well, speaking on the authority of being a Guile user, is this the
> kind of behavior you want Guile to have?  This is exactly the reason I
> left Perl.  There is no good reason to have silently failing software.
>  This is even worse, as what has happened is that the implementation
> has been silently redefined!!
>
> I think that, at the very least, this is a bug in the documentation. 
> There should be all kinds of  flashing red lights and sirens when this
> kind of behavior is possible.

FWIW, I agree.  In 1.7.x I believe we have more of the infrastructure in 
place to get this right - by which I mean to signal an error if a macro 
is passed in this way.  But (having just tried your tests out on 1.7.x) 
it's not doing this just yet.

        Neil