bug#75860: Somewhat confusing exception message with append

Tomas Nordin <[email protected]> writes:

> Do you mean like
>
>     $ guile -c "(append '(a) 'b '())"
>     [...]
>     In procedure append: Wrong type argument in position 2 (expecting empty list): b
>
> Here the position is reported as 2 (as expected I think). Was that what
> you also observed? (Still confusing for me that we are expecting an
> empty list).

Right, I see 1 in the repl and 2 via -c or a file.

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