Re: Strange behavior of define-public in 1.7

[Andreas Rottmann]

address@hidden writes:

> On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 12:34:12PM +0100, Andreas Rottmann wrote:
>> Hi!
>> 
>> I just wanted to try some app under 1.7, when I ran into this:
>
> The same behavior can be seen under 1.6.4
>
Indeed. Strange; the code worked, but began to throw errors like the
one below when I started to use 1.7. I worked around it by using
define-macro instead of syntax-rules.

>> guile> (define-public (x) (define (y) #f) #t)
>> guile> (use-syntax (ice-9 syncase))
>> guile> (define-public (x) (define (y) #f) #t)
>> ERROR: invalid context for definition of y
>> ABORT: (misc-error)
>> guile>
>> 

Andy
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