[CM] S7 integrated in TIC-80, and bug reports

[bil at ccrma.Stanford.EDU]

Thanks for the info and bug reports.  Are you catching
scheme errors or using a repl?  In the repl, I get:


(define-macro (test x . args) (list ,@(map car args)))
(test 10 ('x 1) ('y 2))

;unquote (',') occurred outside quasiquote: (test 10 ('x 1) ('y 2))
;    (test 10 ('x 1) ('y 2))
; test: (list (unquote (apply-values (map c... ; args: (('x 1) ('y 2))

In other words, you have ",@(...)" but there's no enclosing
quasiquote.


(define-macro (test x) `(car ,x))
(let ((x (cons 1 2))) (set! (test x) 3) x)

;test (a macro) does not have a setter: (set! (test x) 3)

The code (set! (test...)...) only works if the test macro
has a setter (a function that tells set! how to handle it
as the target of set!).  Your other case

(let ((x (cons 1 2))) (set! (car x) 3) x)
;(3 . 2)

works because car has a built-in setter in s7 (set-car! is
the standard scheme equivalent).

If you're using s7_eval_c_string or other C-side equivalent,
you need to catch scheme-side errors.  There's a section in
s7.html showing one way to do this ("handling scheme errors
in C" or some such title).