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bug#46750: calc defmath let* behaviour surprising, inconsistent, or wron
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Mattias Engdegård |
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bug#46750: calc defmath let* behaviour surprising, inconsistent, or wrong |
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Mon, 1 Mar 2021 21:12:44 +0100 |
> Thank you Stephan, it does indeed look like a bug.
Not one but quite a few. Apart from the incorrect variable scoping in let* that
you noticed, the `defmath`-specific forms `for` and `foreach` had the same
problem: even the examples in the manual didn't work.
Moreover, `foreach` didn't work at all as specified -- it is supposed to
iterate over list elements but only ran over the list tails. As I was writing
tests, it turned out that the facility to quote functions as a means to
override the substitution of `calcFunc-`-prefixed names didn't work at all.
These have now been fixed on master (08b11a02f49da5ca0e4e58a32fa853df0c5e0214);
please tell me if it helped. Given the number of flaws discovered in this part
of the code, I wouldn't be surprised if there are more to be found.