bug#24454: GOOPS problem with GNU Guile 2.1.4

[Jan Wedekind]

On Wed, 22 Feb 2017, Andy Wingo wrote:

> On Sat 17 Sep 2016 22:43, Jan Wedekind <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > The following program works fine under GNU Guile 2.0.12:
> >
> >     (use-modules (oop goops))
> >     (define-generic native-type)
> >     (define-method (native-type (i <integer>) . args) 0)
> >     (define-method (native-type (i <real>) . args) 1)
> >     (define-method (native-type (b <boolean>) . args) 2)
> >
> >     (native-type 1)
> >     (native-type 1.3)
> >     (native-type #f)
> >     (native-type 1 1.2)
> >     (native-type 1.4 2)
> >     (native-type 1.4 2 3)
> >     (native-type 1.4 1.5)
> >     (native-type #f #t)
> >
> > However under GNU Guile 2.1.4 [1] it fails with an error in
> > "multiple-arity-dispatcher":
>
> Thanks for the bug report!  Fixed in master.
>
> > Getting the backtrace didn't work:
>
> Oops :P  I fixed this too.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Andy

Thanks for fixing it. I can confirm that it works now.

Regards
Jan

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