bug#66057: (ice-9 match) allows invalid usages of ... or ..1

Jean Abou Samra <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.guile.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Le dimanche 17 septembre 2023 à 20:59 -0400, Maxim Cournoyer a écrit :
> It's mentioned in the Guile Reference manual; see info "(guile) Pattern
> Matching":
> > 
> > So your example is just binding the string "Printer" to the variable "..1":
> > since "..1" doesn't have any special meaning, it's just a pattern variable.
> 
> Unless I misread the doc, it should '..1' is a special case '...', which
> means "one or more" instead of "zero or more".


OK, my bad, I didn't know that. You're right that "..1" is mistreated here, it
should be compiled as "one or more repetitions" but instead gets compiled as a
pattern variable. That's a bug, indeed — I believe the expected behavior is that
"..1" behaves like "...", namely being allowed in the middle of a list.
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