From: jbranso--- via "Bug reports for GUILE, GNU's Ubiquitous Extension Language" <bug-guile@gnu.org>
To: "Jean Abou Samra" <jean@abou-samra.fr>
Cc: 59221@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#59221: (file-exists? #f) raises an exception
Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2022 02:15:43 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8627ff0decc84502a4325fd64a425feb@dismail.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1D1C3D58-0BC7-40C2-AC1A-38E59C53FE00@abou-samra.fr>
November 12, 2022 12:58 PM, "Jean Abou Samra" <jean@abou-samra.fr> wrote:
>> 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.
Perhaps I am just being really pedantic. I asked in the #guile irc chat if a predicate should
be able to raise an exception. The answer I was given was no.
Admittedly I did not stay in the channel for long, and I quickly filed this bug report.
Naively, it just feel like it (file-exists? #f) should return #f.
Would there be an objection to changing the definition of file-exists to
(define (file-exists file)
(and (string? file)
(old-file-exists-code file)))
Thanks,
Joshua
>
> 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
2022-11-13 2:15 ` jbranso--- via Bug reports for GUILE, GNU's Ubiquitous Extension Language [this message]
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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