Subject: Re: bug#78650: Guile 3.0.10: regexp-compile not exported by (ice-9 regex) module

From: Tomas Volf <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2025 22:08:29 +0200

Shalok Shalom via "Bug reports for GUILE, GNU's Ubiquitous Extension
Language" <[email-masked]> 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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