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From: Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.de>
Cc: bug-guile@gnu.org
Subject: Re: pk in boot-9.scm
Date: Sun, 22 May 2005 19:56:24 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hdgv42tj.fsf@zagadka.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4274C28D.8010004@ccrma> (Bill Schottstaedt's message of "Sun, 01 May 2005 04:50:37 -0700")

Bill Schottstaedt <bil@ccrma.Stanford.EDU> writes:

> A less-than-ideal error message (abstracted from a much larger context):
>
>
> guile> (version)
> "1.7.2"
> guile> (+ pk 1.0) ; "pk" was a typo in the original code
>
> Backtrace:
> In standard input:
>     5: 0* [+ {#<procedure peek stuff>} 1.0]
>
> standard input:5:1: In procedure + in expression (+ pk 1.0):
> standard input:5:1: Wrong type argument in position 1: #<procedure peek stuff>
> ABORT: (wrong-type-arg)
> guile>

Can you propose a better error message?

> caused by ice-9/boot-9.scm line 225 -- perhaps pk could be moved to a
> debugging module or something.

What would be the advantage of this?

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Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-01 11:50 pk in boot-9.scm Bill Schottstaedt
2005-05-22 16:56 ` Marius Vollmer [this message]

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