Re: no matching syntax-rule for define

[Dominique Boucher <dominique dot boucher at nuecho dot com>]

I think you meant:

(define (add x y) (+ x y))

right? ;-)

Dominique

On 10-12-14 07:16 PM, Per Bothner wrote:
> On 12/14/2010 03:51 PM, Maxim Veksler wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm learning the language.
> >
> > I'm following the course
> > http://www.youtube.com/user/StanfordUniversity#p/c/9D558D49CA734A02/18/_cV8NWQCxnE 
> >
> > , where the professor explains (at time 41:10) the expression: (define
> > add (x y) (+ x y))
> >
> > For some reason when I type this into kawa prompt (java -jar
> > kawa-1.11.jar), I get this error:
> > #|kawa:43|# (define add (x y) (+ x y))
> > /dev/stdin:43:1: no matching syntax-rule for define
>
> He left out required parentheses - it should be:
>
> (define (add (x y)) (+ x y))
>
> The lecturer seems to let his familiarity of the Lisp language
> get confused with the Scheme language ...  (He makes a few other
> mistakes.)
>
> P.S. Interesting.  I didn't know they used Kawa in this class.