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

[Peter Bex]

On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 08:50:05PM +0100, "Jörg F. Wittenberger" wrote:
> I'm not that sure about the relief.  For the fun of it (no more, except 
> that somebody is actually able to spot the problem) I'll paste it below.
> 
> Note that the second parameter to the procedure "rules->process" turned 
> out to be the #<unspecified> value.
> (There are only two calls to it.)
> 
> This second parameter is always "vars", which in turn is the third 
> parameter of "make-mode-choice" below.

Are you sure it isn't already #<unspecified> where make-mode-choice is
invoked?

> To sum up: so far *I* can not see how whatever changes to the semantics 
> of letrec vs. letrec* should be able to effect the passing of that 
> "vars" value at all.  (No matter how wrong the letrec might be now - or 
> not.)

Me neither.

Cheers,
Peter
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