Re: Getting rid of the "edit-compile-run-cycle" for Kawa

[Per Bothner <per at bothner dot com>]

Ethan Herdrick wrote:
> OK requiring 'http works for me, too.

I just check in a fix for this.
> However, the original bug (builtin functions that produce HTML don't
> work with higher-order functions) is still there for me.  For example:
>
> ;; -*- scheme -*-
> (require 'http)
> (apply html:b '("bold this " "and this ")) ; works
> (list (html:b "also this ") (html:b "this too ")) ; works
> (map html:b '("bold 1" "bold2")) ; fails.  gives:
> jndi:/mon.dev.biographicon.com/temp2:7:1: called value is not a
> procedure
> #\newline
>
>
> If I comment out that last line the servlet works as expected.  So
> apply is working with html:b but map is not.  This is with the latest
> snapshot.

This is a consequence of the "generalized apply" - we now allow
application of types, vectors, and more.  But the code-path
taken when compiling map doesn't handle this.  Disabling the
error message (and just return the exp unmodified) causes a
failure later.  I'll look into it.
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