GNU bug report logs - #78650
Guile 3.0.10: regexp-compile not exported by (ice-9 regex) module

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From: Shalok Shalom <shalokshalom <at> protonmail.ch>
To: "bug-guile <at> gnu.org" <bug-guile <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Guile 3.0.10: regexp-compile not exported by (ice-9 regex) module
Date: Fri, 30 May 2025 20:03:01 +0000

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In the Guile 3.0.10 package provided by this distribution, the standard procedure regexp-compile is not exported by the (ice-9 regex) module.
This causes an "Unbound variable: regexp-compile" error when attempting to use this procedure after loading the module with (use-modules (ice-9 regex)).

I am using the Arch Linux distribution, and it does seem to leave the package alone.
Did you deprecate the procedure, or something?

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From: Tomas Volf <~@wolfsden.cz>
To: Shalok Shalom via "Bug reports for GUILE, GNU's Ubiquitous Extension
 Language" <bug-guile <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Shalok Shalom <shalokshalom <at> protonmail.ch>, 78650 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#78650: Guile 3.0.10: regexp-compile not exported by (ice-9
 regex) module
Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2025 22:08:29 +0200

Shalok Shalom via "Bug reports for GUILE, GNU's Ubiquitous Extension
Language" <bug-guile <at> gnu.org> writes:

> In the Guile 3.0.10 package provided by this distribution, the standard procedure regexp-compile is not exported by the (ice-9 regex) module.
> This causes an "Unbound variable: regexp-compile" error when attempting to use this procedure after loading the module with (use-modules (ice-9 regex)).
>
> I am using the Arch Linux distribution, and it does seem to leave the package alone.
> Did you deprecate the procedure, or something?

Was this procedure ever available?  Looking into git history gives
nothing useful.  Why do you believe it should exist?  There is
`make-regexp', maybe you want to use that one.

Tomas

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Message #16 received at 78650-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
To: Tomas Volf <~@wolfsden.cz>
Cc: shalokshalom <at> protonmail.ch, 78650-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#78650: Guile 3.0.10: regexp-compile not exported by (ice-9
 regex) module
Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2025 20:03:33 +0900

Hi,

Tomas Volf <~@wolfsden.cz> writes:

> Shalok Shalom via "Bug reports for GUILE, GNU's Ubiquitous Extension
> Language" <bug-guile <at> gnu.org> writes:
>
>> In the Guile 3.0.10 package provided by this distribution, the
>> standard procedure regexp-compile is not exported by the (ice-9
>> regex) module.
>> This causes an "Unbound variable: regexp-compile" error when
>> attempting to use this procedure after loading the module with
>> (use-modules (ice-9 regex)).
>>
>> I am using the Arch Linux distribution, and it does seem to leave the package alone.
>> Did you deprecate the procedure, or something?
>
> Was this procedure ever available?  Looking into git history gives
> nothing useful.  Why do you believe it should exist?  There is
> `make-regexp', maybe you want to use that one.

regexp-compile is not part of the standard Guile API, as far as I
know. It's not documented, and not exported from (ice-9 regex).  Maybe
Arch Linux does something extra to provide it?  Or maybe you are using
Racket there instead of Guile?

Closing.

-- 
Thanks,
Maxim

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