From: Jean Abou Samra <jean@abou-samra.fr>
To: Joshua Branson <jbranso@dismail.de>
Cc: 59221@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#59221: (file-exists? #f) raises an exception
Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2022 18:57:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1D1C3D58-0BC7-40C2-AC1A-38E59C53FE00@abou-samra.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y1sghxm2.fsf@dismail.de>
> Le 12 nov. 2022 à 18:50, Joshua Branson via Bug reports for GUILE, GNU's Ubiquitous Extension Language <bug-guile@gnu.org> a écrit :
>
>
> Hello you lovely guile people!
>
> This bug is so simple the subject line says it all!
>
> file-exists? is a predicate, but
>
> #+BEGIN_SRC scheme
> (file-exists? #f)
> ice-9/boot-9.scm:1685:16: In procedure raise-exception:
> In procedure stat: Wrong type argument in position 1 (expecting open file port): #f
>
> Entering a new prompt. Type `,bt' for a backtrace or `,q' to continue.
> #+END_SRC
>
> I will shortly tag this as "easy". Can you lovely maintainers give me
> about a week to try to fix this myself?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Joshua
> avid fantany reader
What’s the problem here?
It is normal for predicates to be defined only on certain types. You will find the same with positive?, string-null? and the like.
Regards,
Jean
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-11-12 17:49 bug#59221: (file-exists? #f) raises an exception Joshua Branson via Bug reports for GUILE, GNU's Ubiquitous Extension Language
2022-11-12 17:57 ` Jean Abou Samra [this message]
2022-11-13 2:15 ` jbranso--- via Bug reports for GUILE, GNU's Ubiquitous Extension Language
2022-11-13 6:44 ` tomas
2022-11-13 10:34 ` Jean Abou Samra
2022-11-16 15:27 ` Joshua Branson via Bug reports for GUILE, GNU's Ubiquitous Extension Language
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