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Re: case-expression in function position causes error

From: Jim White <jim at pagesmiths dot com>
To: Per Bothner <per at bothner dot com>
Cc: kawa at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Sat, 24 May 2003 14:36:19 -0700
Subject: Re: case-expression in function position causes error
References: <20030523.093119.74735950.Sven.Hartrumpf@FernUni-Hagen.de> <3ECE36DE.5020108@bothner.com>

Per Bothner wrote:

Sven Hartrumpf wrote:
A case-expression in a function position causes errors like this:

kawa ; current CVS version
#|kawa:1|# (load "kawabug3.scm") kawabug3.scm:2:4: warning - cannot convert literal (of type gnu.mapping.Values) to gnu.mapping.Procedure #|kawa:2|#
The warning is correct, if confusing, because
you have no else clause.

Actually R5RS sez that the else-clause is optional:

http://www.schemers.org/Documents/Standards/R5RS/HTML/r5rs-Z-H-7.html#%25_sec_4.2.1

Jim

References:
- case-expression in function position causes error
  - From: Sven Hartrumpf
- Re: case-expression in function position causes error
  - From: Per Bothner

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