Re: Guile: What's wrong with this?

[Bruce Korb]

On 01/04/12 15:19, Mark H Weaver wrote:
> Bruce Korb<address@hidden>  writes:
>
> > > ERROR: In procedure string-upcase:
> > > ERROR: string is read-only: ""
> > > Scheme evaluation error.  AutoGen ABEND-ing in template
> > >         confmacs.tlib on line 209
> > > Failing Guile command:  = = = = =
> > >
> > > (set! tmp-text (get "act-text"))
> > >         (set! TMP-text (string-upcase tmp-text))
> >
> > What in heck is string-upcase doing trying to write to its input string?
> > Why was the string returned by ag_scm_get() (the function bound to "get")
> > an immutable string anyway?
>
> Good questions indeed.  I spent a bunch of time investigating this, and
> found some bugs that might have caused this problem, although I'm not
> certain.
>
> Bruce: Can you please see if the patch below fixes this problem?

OK.  I'll have to play this weekend.  I have to download and install
Guile sources and, unfortunately, this thread notwithstanding, I do
have a day job....

Thank you so much!!  Regards, Bruce