Re: [Chicken-users] Problem with (symbol->string) in Chicken 4.0

[William Ramsay]

Can you be a little more explicit in what you mean?   Adding that just 
produces more errors. 

John Cowan wrote:
> William Ramsay scripsit:
>
>   
> > I've recently moved from Chicken-3.4.0  to Chicken-4.0.0.
> >
> > I've been using a structure macro I got from /Teach Yourself Scheme in 
> > Fixnum Days/ by Dorai Sitaram.    It's worked fine in 3.4 but fails in 
> > 4.0 and I can figure out why.   It fails on line 4 of (define-syntax 
> > define-structure) with a compile error starting that s is not a 
> > symbol.    It is trying to read (define-structure customer ...) at the 
> > bottom of the listing.   Why is the word customer no longer a symbol?
> >     
>
> In Chicken 4, a bare lambda in define-syntax is an explicit-renaming
> macro, so the simplest change is this:
>
>   
> > (define-syntax define-structure
> >  (lambda (s . ff)
> >     
>
>    (lambda body rename compare)
>      (define s (car body))
>      (define ff (cdr body))
>
>