GnuCash 1.8.1-4 and RedHat 9: Error in main.scm

[John W. Eaton]

On 11-Apr-2003, Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> wrote:

| The problem with guile (or any interpretted language) is that you
| don't know you have problems with the code until you actually try to
| execute that particular line of code.  It's not like C where you can
| get compile-time warnings of syntax errors.  So it makes it very
| difficult to find simple syntax errors like this one (well, it's a
| syntax error in guile-1.6, not in earlier guiles).

There should be some way to force the interpreter to read the code and
at least verify that the syntax is OK.  Probably loading it is enough
to get guile to do that.  It won't catch errors in program logic, but
neither will compiling C code.

jwe

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