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James F Hall writes: > > > > > > :perhaps the developer has a ~/.guile (or similar) init file that > :defines `while'. > > Nope. I don't have a ~/.guile file. This is my environment: > > * Linux (Red Hat 5.1, "out of the box") > * GNU Guile 1.2 I'm using some snapshot from spring. Maybe that's the origin of the problem? Blandy inadvertently changed some startup code for guile. (M.Stachowiak already complained about gh_enter no longer calling SCM_ boot_guile) I do have while (though nowhere documented) in the standalone guile, but it doesn't work with the scheme interpreter embedded in robot. > * GNU Robots 0.76 (or 0.77) > > > I used the "while" statement because I am learning Scheme by reading > the "tutorial" that comes with TI's "PC Scheme" program. It had a > "while" statement, so I sort of assumed that was a Scheme primitive. > Hmmm.. maybe it's not. It is in guile, but nowhere documented. > > But why it works on my system and not Klaus's is confusing. Anyone > know why there's a difference?? > > The problem could be that the two guile versions are incompatible in bootup behaviour. Klaus Schilling