[Ecls-list] Warnings should print contexts

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 5:59 PM, Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll
<juanjose.garciaripoll at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 3:40 AM, Gabriel Dos Reis
> <gdr at integrable-solutions.net> wrote:
>> In ECL-0.9l (and trunk), a compiler warning will not print the current
>> form being compiled, even thought (print-current-form) is called.  That renders
>> the warnings almost useless when *suppress-compiler-notes*.
>
> I have fixed two things. First, progress along the file only depends
> on *compile-verbose*. This means the messages Compiling... Emitting...
> will not disappear if you set suppress-compiler-notes to nil.
>
> Second, notes, warnings and errors print the file, file position and
> form if available. Currently this is not of much use because the forms
> are most of the times macroexpanded and on the second pass the context
> has already been forgotten. Both things should be fixed, but we
> already have a starting point.

This is excellent!
I know how to make use of it the OpenAxiom ECL-based development :-)
Thanks!

>
> Besides that, the condition system for the compiler has been
> implemented. We are still missing changes that allow one to catch the
> conditions and intercept them, or just collect them and print them all
> together, etc, etc.

Thanks;  ECL will soon surpass SBCL in this area :-)

-- Gaby