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Re: The GIMP! By gum, I forgot all about it!

Scott Goehring <scott@poverty.bloomington.in.us> writes:

> SIOD, or at least the SIOD in script-fu, lets you set! a previously
> unbound variable.  So (set! foo 5) is perfectly legal in script-fu,
> but raises an exception in guile.  Unfortunately, a number of
> script-fu script authors have made use of this anomalous behavior.

Maybe this quick hack can be the beginning of a solution (guile
specific code):

(define %set! set!)
(defmacro set! (name value)
  `(begin
     (if (not (defined? (quote ,name)))
	 (define ,name #f))
     (%set! ,name ,value)))

-russ