Re: [Denemo-devel] Return value of commands that are scripts

[Richard Shann]

In the fresh light of day I have got on top of this.
The scripted commands go through scheme_script_callback(), and this
returns true or false depending on if the scheme executed without error
or not. So the d-LilyPondInclude must have been working by inadvertently
causing some syntax error or similar when it returned #f.
Whether we could change the code so that call_out_to_guile() worked
differently and returned the last expression evaluated in the script I'm
not sure - it would require a proper study of schemes throw and catch.

Richard


On Wed, 2014-06-18 at 21:15 +0100, Richard Shann wrote:
> Eloi, Jeremiah - I was surprised to find that if you write a command
> that is a scheme script then the value of the last expression in the
> script is discarded when invoked from scheme, #t is always returned.
> I discovered this because the d-LilyPondInclude command tries to return
> a boolean when passed a parameter ('query . filename) for some string
> filename, depending on whether there is an include for a file of that
> name.
> This stopped working when I re-worked the include stuff, but now I can't
> see how it ever worked. I have just worked around the problem, but I
> can't see where the invocation of scripted commands takes place in the
> newly arranged code, so I don't understand why the last expression in
> the script is not being returned.
> If anyone can shed light on this I would be grateful...
> 
> Richard
> 
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