Subject: [Anand Mohanadoss] symbol printing problem

From: Andy Wingo <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2016 22:35:55 +0200

Subject: symbol printing problem
From: Anand Mohanadoss <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2016 18:04:45 +0530
List-Id: General Guile related discussions <guile-user.gnu.org>

Hi,

We observed the following with guile 2.0.11 -

scheme@(guile-user)> (define sym '912828S7912810RS)
While reading expression:
ERROR: In procedure string->number: Value out of range: 7912810

Is this expected?  Do we need to enable any read-options?  If this is
expected, it appears that if we are creating symbols from random data, we
need to do a symbol->string before printing it.  Is this the recommendation
or should we do something else?

Thank you!
Anand