Re: diaper pattern lurking in ui.scm

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org> skribis:

> I was working on a new package and found that I was very surprised that
> suddenly guix told me that "guix package" did not exist:
>
>   cwebber@earlgrey:~/devel/guix$ guix package --help
>   guix: package: command not found
>   Try `guix --help' for more information.
>
> Whaaaa?

Ouch.  :-)

[...]

> In other words, (error) considered harmful, use (throw 'specific-key)
> instead :)

Indeed.  I’ve modified (guix base32) to throw a custom error condition
instead, so now this case should be gracefully handled–potentially fewer
frustrated users!

Thanks for the report!

Ludo’.