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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