Re: [patch] sawfish.wm.util.prompt

[Timo Korvola <Timo Korvola iki fi>]

On Monday 07 September 2009 20:30:39 Matthew Love wrote:
> So as far as the compiler was concerned, the functions, defvar'd to
>  nil, did not take any arguments.

The original code looks fine to me.  It seems that the compiler is 
broken here, fortunately only by emitting spurious warnings rather than 
producing broken byte code.  The compiler should have figured out that 
because the called variable is a defvar, it is likely to be changed, and 
because it is nil, it has to be changed before the function call occurs.  
Hence it is difficult or impossible to analyse statically.

> Re-defining the intital defvar's from nil to (lambda (#!rest) nil)

That is actually a syntax error, although presently undetected by rep.  
#!rest should be followed by a parameter name, e.g., (lambda (#!rest 
foo) nil) or in Scheme style (lambda foo nil).

Note that the general direction in Sawfish has been towards Scheme 
style.  New code should use define rather than defun.

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	Timo Korvola		<URL:http://www.iki.fi/tkorvola>