>>>>> "Marius" == Marius Vollmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Marius> Neil Jerram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> >>>>> "Marius" == Marius Vollmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
Marius> Neil Jerram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> >>
>> >> I'm not convinced. How can people be expecting debugging to be turned
>> >> on after having explicitly said `(debug-disable 'debug)' in their
>> >> .guile file?
>>
Marius> Because Guile behaved like that for quite a while.
>>
>> But it's a bug!
Marius> Yes, and it is fixed in the non-stable branch. It's too late to fix
Marius> it in the stable branch.
Marius> It is too late because I have decided so. I know that this might not
Marius> be popular, and it comes somewhat as a surprise. I don't do this
Marius> because I like to be despotic, but because I think it is constructive.
Marius> 1.6 has been too long in the making. Of course, there is a huge
Marius> amount of improvements to be made in Guile, but that's why we have the
Marius> unstable HEAD branch.
OK, fair enough. Sorry for going on about this for so long.
>> Do we say that we don't want to fix `(array? car) => #t)' now because
>> Guile has behaved this way for a while?
Marius> Yes, exactly. It wont be fixed in the stable branch.
Sorry again; I didn't realize that we weren't planning to fix this in
the stable branch. Understanding this makes the overall picture
much clearer.
Neil
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