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

[Derek Atkins]

"John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo.che.wisc.edu> writes:

> 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.

Negative.  It wont tell you if, say, you have the wrong number of
arguments to a procedure, or the wrong type of arguments, until the
code is executed.

Gross syntax errors, like missing parens, are certainly caught by
loading the file..  But that's not sufficient (and sorry, I don't
consider the wrong number of arguments to be an error in program
logic).

> jwe

-derek

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