[Ecls-list] Strange non-catching of error

[Geo Carncross]

On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 4:19 AM, David Creelman <creelman.david at gmail.com> wrote:
...
> I wondered if SBCL might tell me more, so I tried it and it complained with
>
> debugger invoked on a TYPE-ERROR in thread #<THREAD "initial thread" {A8846F9}>:
>  The value |#NEWLINE| is not of type CHARACTER.
>
> This was quite useful. It found my typo. Would it be possible to get ECL to
> behave in a similar way to this?

\#newline is just a symbol named #NEWLINE and is perfectly allowed;
"\" is simply the escape character. Try 'F\o\o

The error is in fact some place inside "out" or "combine", or perhaps
the result of "quoted", none of which is present here.