Re: Kawa on Android - unable to use 'for-each' form

[Per Bothner <per at bothner dot com>]

On 03/17/2011 09:26 PM, Benny Tsai wrote:
> Hello Kawaites,
>
> Sorry to be a pest, but I've run into another issue while trying to
> write Android applications in Kawa Scheme: I can't use the 'for-each'
> form in my code.  A sample activity for testing this:
>
> (require 'android-defs)
> (activity
>   hello
>   (on-create-view
>    (let ((tv (android.widget.TextView (this))))
>      (tv:setText "Hello, Android from Kawa Scheme!\n")
>      (for-each (lambda (x)
> 		(tv:append "hi\n"))
> 	      '(1 2 3))
>      tv)))
>
> I tried this with two versions of Kawa 1.11 from source: 1.11 from ftp
> (ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/kawa/kawa-1.11.tar.gz), and the latest from
> SVN (rev. 6926).  I'm on Windows, so both were compiled via "ant
> -Denable-android=true".
>
> With the SVN source, the code does not compile; "ant debug" gets stuck
> at the scompile stage.

I have good news and bad news.

The good news is that your activity compiles and runs for me,
using the SVN sources.

The bad news is I don't know why it doesn't work for you ...
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