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Subject: Re: diaper pattern lurking in ui.scm
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To: Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org>
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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=E2=80=99ve modified (guix base32) to throw a custom error condit=
ion
instead, so now this case should be gracefully handled=E2=80=93potentially =
fewer
frustrated users!

Thanks for the report!

Ludo=E2=80=99.