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"Maciej" == Maciej Stachowiak <mstachow@mit.edu> writes: Maciej> What does SIOD do with set! that's so unusual? SIOD, or at least the SIOD in script-fu, lets you set! a previously unbound variable. So (set! foo 5) is perfectly legal in script-fu, but raises an exception in guile. Unfortunately, a number of script-fu script authors have made use of this anomalous behavior. Maciej> This insufficiently portable point at least is definitely Maciej> wrong - it builds on more or less any unix-like system, and Maciej> uses autoconf so it probably builds even on systems the Maciej> maintainers have never heard of. Has anyone here ever been Maciej> unable to build Guile on a weird system? I didn't say that it was; I said that it was _perceived_ that way. I think there is a concern that we'd lose one or more of our supported architectures by adopting guile. Probably the most problematic architectures in this regard are OS/2 and Windows, neither of which is UNIX.