Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Fix bad call in chicken-install error situation

[Felix]

From: Peter Bex <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Fix bad call in chicken-install error 
situation
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 21:21:55 +0200

> On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 02:44:58PM -0400, Mario Domenech Goulart wrote:
>> Shouldn't `with-default-sources' give something like
>> 
>>       (lambda ()
>>         (with-output-to-port (current-error-port)
>>           (lambda ()
>>             (print "Could not determine a source of extensions. "
>>                    "Please, specify a location and a transport for a 
>> source.")))
>>         (exit 1))
>> 
>> as the third argument to proc?  Or maybe it could simply abort instead
>> of calling proc.
> 
> I don't know.  This code is confusing.  Maybe Felix can chime in.

Indeed, it is truly horrible. AFAIK "trans" will never be #f, so "next"
should not be called in "list-available-extensions". Mario's suggestion
looks correct to me.


cheers,
felix