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Somewhat confusing exception message with append

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From: Rob Browning <rlb <at> defaultvalue.org>
To: Tomas Nordin <tomasn <at> posteo.net>, 75860 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#75860: Somewhat confusing exception message with append
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2025 21:41:37 -0500

Tomas Nordin <tomasn <at> posteo.net> writes:

> Do you mean like
>
>     $ guile -c "(append '(a) 'b '())"
>     [...]
>     In procedure append: Wrong type argument in position 2 (expecting empty list): b
>
> Here the position is reported as 2 (as expected I think). Was that what
> you also observed? (Still confusing for me that we are expecting an
> empty list).

Right, I see 1 in the repl and 2 via -c or a file.

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