[cl-irc-devel] irc reply 328

[Erik Huelsmann]

On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 2:34 PM, Zach Beane <xach at xach.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 12:08:19PM +0200, Erik Huelsmann wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 11:11 PM, Kevin Reid <kpreid at mac.com> wrote:
>> > On Aug 18, 2008, at 16:09, R.Matthew Emerson wrote:
>> >
>> >> It appears that when a channel is "registered" on freenode, the server
>> >> sends a reply of the following form to set the channel's URL:
>> >>
>> >> :zelazny.freenode.net 328 rme #ccl :http://ccl.clozure.com/
>> >>
>> >> CL-IRC doesn't know about this, and signals an error when it encounters
>> >> it.
>> >
>> > Perhaps CL-IRC should, by default or as a readily available mode, not enter
>> > the debugger upon an unrecognized message, since they are more likely
>> > 'uninteresting' than 'program bug'?
>>
>> How about changing the responsible form from ERROR into SIGNAL then?
>
> I don't know much about cl-irc internals, but it seems like it's not a
> condition at all, but just another kind of message that has a numeric
> code and arguments. If cl-irc knows nothing specific about it, client
> code could, if needed, still inspect the code of the message do
> something useful with it.

Well, the problem is that in this case, there won't be a class to map
the number to. cl-irc uses these classes to dispatch the incoming
messages.

Another option is to introduce an 'unknown-message' class and map
everything unknown to it. That class can be used to dispatch messages
with unknown response codes.

Bye,

Erik.