Subject: guile: ",option prompt VALUE" only accepts literals
From: Daniel Hartwig <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2012 11:29:08 +0800
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Package: guile
Version: 2.0.7
Severity: minor

Dear maintainer

The REPL prompt option accepts #f, strings, thunks, and procedures of
one argument.  However, only the first two can be set using the
meta-command ,option; one must use repl-option-set! for thunks and
procedures.

It seems that VALUE is not evaluated.

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(sid)daniel@io:~/src/gnu/guile$ meta/guile
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Enter `,help' for help.
scheme@(guile-user)> ,option prompt "foo: "
foo: ,option prompt (lambda (repl) "bar: ")
While executing meta-command:
ERROR: Invalid prompt (lambda (repl) "bar: ")
foo: (lambda (repl) "bar: ")
$1 = #<procedure 8a7e860 at <current input>:3:0 (repl)>
foo: ,option prompt $1
While executing meta-command:
ERROR: Invalid prompt $1
foo: (use-modules (system repl common))
foo: (repl-option-set! (car (fluid-ref *repl-stack*)) 'prompt $1)
bar: