Possibly strange fluid errors

2011-06-13 Thread Francis Southern
Hell Guilers, I just built Guile from the stable-2.0 branch of the Git repository and got these errors from running `make check': FAIL: fluids.test: initial fluid values: fluid-ref uninitialized fluid is #f FAIL: fluids.test: with-fluids with non-fluid: fluids not modified if nonfluid passed to w

Stable 2.0 and popen.test on Debian Squeeze

2011-02-24 Thread Francis Southern
Hello Guilers, As you may know, several people have been having problems with `popen.test' with 2.0 on Debian Squeeze. After a suggestion from Ludovic on IRC, I tried running it with my /bin/sh symlinked to Bash rather than Dash and there were no unexpected failures. Yay. Upon further inspectio

Strange string-append and string-match behaviour

2011-02-17 Thread Francis Southern
Hello Guilers, I'm not 100% sure whether this is a bug or not, and it might not even be legal Scheme code! But it seemed a bit odd to me so I'm reporting it here. (I'm currently using 1.9.15, but I believe this to be reproducible on 2.0.) I was trying to match strings that started with a questio

Re: Typos in the manual

2011-02-16 Thread Francis Southern
On 15 February 2011 20:43, Mark Harig wrote: > >> >> Also, while the Chicago Manual of Style recommends it, some other online >> >> grammar sites mention that it is American English style, but British >> >> English would not add a comma afterwards. >> >> My feeling is consistent with that.  I'm Br