[armedbear-devel] symbol-macrolet bug

[Erik Huelsmann]

Hi!

On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 5:39 AM, szergling <senatorzergling at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I've been quite stoked to watch the surge of activity on
> armedbear in the last few months. Keep up the good
> work guys!

Thanks! We will!

> My reason for this email is:
>
> If I type the following at the REPL, or load from a file (that's
> how I discovered this), I get an error in abcl-0.16.0. Regardless
> of mode (REPL. load file, with or without eval-when), I always get
> an error. It's that load-time-value causing trouble, I believe...

That's correct. Our preprocessor which does macroexpansion had a bug
relating to load-time-value and some other forms which the interpreter
considers special-operators.

> (defun test ()
>  (symbol-macrolet ((ii (load-time-value 45)))
>    ii))

I've identified the bug and committed a fix. If you switch to using
trunk, or wait a few hours/days until 0.17 comes out, it'll have the
fix applied.

Thanks for reporting!


Bye,

Erik.