[armedbear-devel] Problem with error reporting

[Blake McBride]

Wow.  Defining a class changes error messages.  Look at this fully!
If I call (time) I get an error message about "~S" but after defining
a dummy class when I do (time) I get the correct error message!

CL-USER(1): (time)
#<THREAD "interpreter" {3DCA1588}>: Debugger invoked on condition of
type PROGRAM-ERROR
  Wrong number of arguments for ~S.
Restarts:
  0: TOP-LEVEL Return to top level.
[1] CL-USER(2): 0
CL-USER(3): (defclass abc ())
#<STANDARD-CLASS ABC {784E8EDC}>
CL-USER(4): (time)
#<THREAD "interpreter" {3DCA1588}>: Debugger invoked on condition of
type PROGRAM-ERROR
  Wrong number of arguments for TIME.
Restarts:
  0: TOP-LEVEL Return to top level.
[1] CL-USER(5):












On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 10:18 AM, Blake McBride <blake at mcbride.name> wrote:
> Here is another example:
>
> Error loading /Users/blake/NetBeansProjects/Arahant/src/java/com/arahant/lisp/utils.lisp
> at line 268 (offset 10995)
> #<THREAD "main" {E4EB585}>: Unhandled condition of type SIMPLE-ERROR:
>  The slot ~S is missing from the class ~S.
>
>
> "~S" isn't very helpful.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Blake McBride
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 8:52 AM, Blake McBride <blake at mcbride.name> wrote:
>> I've noticed a problem with error reporting in certain cases.  For
>> example, if you type (cons) you get:
>>
>> "Wrong number of arguments for CONS."
>>
>> However, if you type (time) you get:
>>
>> "Wrong number of arguments for ~S."
>>
>> It should be:
>>
>> "Wrong number of arguments for TIME."
>>
>> Of course this is a problem because it doesn't give any pointers when
>> a function fails.
>>
>> I've seen this issue in several instances.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Blake McBride
>>
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