False alarm. It turned out to be a bad copy of the Simply Scheme files. Don't know why, though. Thanks anyway.
On Mon, Jul 4, 2016 at 2:30 AM, Peter Bex <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 03, 2016 at 10:02:22AM -0400, Lawrence Bottorff wrote: > > I'm having trouble with loading the code for the Berkeley Scheme course > > Simply Scheme, specifically this > > <http://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~bh/downloads/simply/simply.scm> code. > > I've tested it in many different versions of Scheme. In Chicken, I get > this > > error: > > > > #;1> (load "simply.scm") > > ; loading simply.scm ... > > > > Error: (symbol->string) bad argument type - not a symbol: #<procedure (? > > wd)> > > Hello Lawrence, > > Are you only loading the exact file from that URL? Which version of > CHICKEN are you using? > > If I do the same in any of the last three releases (these are 4.9.0.1, > 4.10.0 and 4.11.0), it loads the file without any complains: > > CHICKEN > (c) 2008-2016, The CHICKEN Team > (c) 2000-2007, Felix L. Winkelmann > Version 4.11.0 (rev ce980c4) > linux-unix-gnu-x86-64 [ 64bit manyargs dload ptables ] > compiled 2016-05-28 on yves.more-magic.net (Linux) > > #;1> (load "simply.scm") > ; loading simply.scm ... > #;2> > > > So this seems to indicate you're either testing with a very old version > of CHICKEN, or you've already made some changes to the code from that URL. > > Cheers, > Peter >
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