From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: zerodaysfordays@sdf.lonestar.org (Jakob L. Kreuze) Subject: Re: Inscrutable error when using =?utf-8?Q?=E2=80=9Cguix_deploy?= =?utf-8?Q?=E2=80=9D?= Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2019 10:21:28 -0400 Message-ID: <877e6msu1j.fsf@sdf.lonestar.org> References: <87sgptjkb9.fsf@elephly.net> <87blwgjc8w.fsf@elephly.net> <87zhjy5txx.fsf@sdf.lonestar.org> <87muflwpxq.fsf@gnu.org> <87sgpcflwy.fsf@elephly.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:58486) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1i5sdk-00065u-S2 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Sep 2019 10:21:38 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1i5sdj-00047j-LF for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Sep 2019 10:21:36 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87sgpcflwy.fsf@elephly.net> (Ricardo Wurmus's message of "Wed, 04 Sep 2019 11:30:53 +0200") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Ricardo Wurmus Cc: guix-devel --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Ludovic + Ricardo! Ricardo Wurmus writes: >> We could probably arrange so that =E2=80=98gexp->sexp=E2=80=99 reports a= bout objects >> without a read syntax that remain in the resulting sexp. > > This is a good idea. It=E2=80=99s never the right thing for unreadable s= yntax > 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 --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCAAdFiEEa1VJLOiXAjQ2BGSm9Qb9Fp2P2VoFAl1xGegACgkQ9Qb9Fp2P 2Vos8hAAjNCzAK/pboUkcUBiJF+Hjsk9goKq4dtvi5zqrqatmnUAe58mjU2Y5yq2 Fo0YlTolYVIPK8kuzert/dpqAHtK+dZ11At8rkzSEM+oREpvnmsb/DHUc2+kW8y/ LVGtFuitt5zp6ptzwcGKXy+ngDuCliI7IzrBdfAwc3VISXb7ckcP9Gc1OqnZtFW+ 62G8uFtNYMfUJBuBzaH4jTGNvhvgZqvXB83ZfIZoJlLWhSv4z/zyyOyWYicfKNrp c1CLn3Z11mn4t6Gvb1yKt6Mc33YF5GqHRFoxDs5BWi5tVCgOQ38vbNpwSlhmoQIp Ze9dGkyPHVIM93QFGmfMYoITb/nYI8VXCIOccbcoHShHzL/pg33BulLGkf3G5C56 FA17fM2y6yIzmTRAXNGhwaLBn6SAAwM+NcCUEyCcBGZoAOlSH6fJa/6yq+YhMedR nCZUveZWqqObT34onA29fOOV3KrXUvagkkdTaAEj/NewsOg66cok2d4UvDFhz1sC 1IVs1ZexHRIaOjuDuzs4Leu+pmZucj5ZL8thDPF3An/Z7RQ6ClwOQ0sLSJ0QMJHp ilvmtl7dvB1nbjTYXY5o0r8lbzfz3jVBoZJY1bASi7jRM44jlxMK7JJfIMFUUvhf 5Hs6iGBNvyW2PzvitpPaJggb0WJQLN4t1Yasd9IkBJeiGitatRM= =ypza -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--