[asdf-devel] Guard against (push "/foo/bar" asdf:*central-registry*)

[Gary King]

>>
>> Couldn't ASDF signal a warning when it encounters such a thing while
>> grovelling through the registry?
>
> Wouldn't it be more user-friendly to coerce such pathnames to ones  
> that
> denote directory names?


It sounds like there are two questions:

* How to inform the user that something is wrong

* How to continue in the presence of the wrongosity

I agree with Robert that a cerror is better than a warning because  
system loading already emits so much verbiage that a warning is likely  
to be lost in the haze.

Today I'm more in the "fail quickly" camp and would rather ASDF signal  
a continable error with two restarts:

	1. remove the confusing registry entry
	2. coerce it to a directory.

In either case, the registry will be corrected so that the cerror will  
only happen once in a session. Also, if the user fixes the root  
problem, it'll only happen once period!

Code example coming shortly,
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