[Chicken-hackers] Proposal / patch for fixing #1385 (swapped bit-set? argument order)

2017-08-08 Thread Peter Bex
Hi all, I've discussed #1385 with Felix, and after some consideration we agreed the lesser of three evils is to rename the procedure to something completely nonstandard. Swapping the argument order in CHICKEN 5 will almost certainly introduce insidious bugs when porting existing programs from

Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Move `print-error-message' into (chicken condition)

2017-08-08 Thread Peter Bex
On Mon, Aug 07, 2017 at 09:46:19PM +1200, Evan Hanson wrote: > Per Felix and Peter's recent proposal. > > That post also mentions an "error-message" procedure that should be > moved, but I'm not sure what that refers to so haven't included it (is > that possibly a mistake, or maybe something that

Re: [Chicken-hackers] Proposal / patch for fixing #1385 (swapped bit-set? argument order)

2017-08-08 Thread John Cowan
On Tue, Aug 8, 2017 at 2:11 PM, Peter Bex wrote: Renaming it to a completely nonstandard name should make it easy to port, > I think this is the Right Thing. > and later on (CHICKEN 5.1 or even 5.2) we can re-introduce the bit-set? > procedure with the correct argument