Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Fix for #989 and hopefully #877 too

[Peter Bex]

On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 08:18:20PM +0100, "Jörg F. Wittenberger" wrote:
> Things seem to be much worse than expected.
> 
> Without going into all the nasty details, this is roughly where the 
> problem is:
> 
> The parameter named 'static-variables' here turned out to be 
> #<unspecified> when referenced:
> 
> (define (rules->process recurse static-variables rules)
>   (lambda-process
>    "rules->process"(rules)
>    ;; FIXME: this needs to be rewritten using the new macros!
>    (xml-walk*1
>            (current-place) (current-message) (root-node)
>            (xsl-envt-union (environment) static-variables)
>            (namespaces)
>            (ancestors)
>            (current-node)
>            (current-node)
>            recurse rules)))

This is all extremely contextual.  I have no idea what half of
this stuff does, and you can't expect us to dig into a big pile
of custom code just to distill a bug.  Can you not reduce it to
something that breaks, but has no external dependencies?

Cheers,
Peter
-- 
http://www.more-magic.net