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On Thu, Oct 29, 1998 at 11:32:18PM -0500, Russell McManus wrote: >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))) Uhm, why do you emulate define? :) (this does not solve the problem that SIOD's set! returns the new value though) (define set! define) -forcer -- ;; "Hello World!" 17 errors, 31 warnings. ;; email: forcer@mindless.com -><- www: http://webserver.de/forcer/ ;; IRC: forcer@#StarWars (IRCnet) -><- PGP/GPG: available on my website