[armedbear-devel] ASDF: Cannot handle the special form EXTENSIONS:TRULY-THE

[Alessio Stalla]

On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 3:30 PM, Blake McBride <blake at mcbride.name> wrote:
> BTW:
>
> SBCL works
> CLISP fails with MACROLET error
> CMUCL works
> ECL works

To me it seems more like a Screamer error than an ASDF error. Probably
Screamer's code walker cannot handle some ABCL-specific
macroexpansion.

Alessio

> On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 3:25 AM, Mark Evenson <evenson.not.org at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Nov 30, 2011, at 01:40 , Blake McBride wrote:
>>
>>> Greetings,
>>>
>>> Trying to load a package with ASDF I ran into the following error:
>>>
>>> ASDF could not load  because Cannot (currently) handle the special
>>> form EXTENSIONS:TRULY-THE.
>>> #<THREAD "interpreter" {4BC78066}>: Debugger invoked on condition of
>>> type SIMPLE-ERROR
>>>  Cannot (currently) handle the special form TRULY-THE
>>> Restarts:
>>> ...
>>>
>>> I traced the problem to ASDF and not the package I was attempting to load.
>>>
>>> Does anyone know anything about this?  (I am running the latest SVN
>>> head of ABCL)
>>
>> I've never really understood our TRULY-THE implementation, but this
>> is as good a time as ever.
>>
>> Searching for the string "(currently)" doesn't seem to show that
>> the error text is sourced anywhere within our source tree, so I
>> would guess that something within the ASDF package you are attempting
>> to load is doing something extra-ordinary.
>>
>> Any chance you can give a recipe for reproducing this?
>
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