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From: zerodaysfordays@sdf.lonestar.org (Jakob L. Kreuze)
To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Inscrutable error when using “guix deploy”
Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2019 10:21:28 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877e6msu1j.fsf@sdf.lonestar.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sgpcflwy.fsf@elephly.net> (Ricardo Wurmus's message of "Wed, 04 Sep 2019 11:30:53 +0200")

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Hi Ludovic + Ricardo!

Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:

>> We could probably arrange so that ‘gexp->sexp’ reports about objects
>> without a read syntax that remain in the resulting sexp.
>
> This is a good idea.  It’s never the right thing for unreadable syntax
> to appear in a generated S-expression when using Gexps, so producing an
> error at conversion time seems much better.

I agree that this would be a good way of going about improving error
reporting. Admittedly, I have very little experience augmenting the Lisp
reader, so I wouldn't be much help here.

Regards,
Jakob

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      reply	other threads:[~2019-09-05 14:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-22 15:23 Inscrutable error when using “guix deploy” Ricardo Wurmus
2019-08-22 22:40 ` alex sassmannshausen
2019-08-23 12:29   ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-08-24 17:55     ` Jakob L. Kreuze
2019-09-03 11:59       ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-09-04  9:30         ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-09-05 14:21           ` Jakob L. Kreuze [this message]

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