[Ecls-list] how to get the line number of code from error message!

[Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll]

On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 7:10 AM, cm <xiao.ao.jiang.hu.cm at gmail.com> wrote:

> ;;; Loading "D:/ECL/code/hello.lisp"
>
> "hi"
> Condition of type: SIMPLE-READER-ERROR
> Reader error in file #<input stream #P"D:/ECL/code/hello.lisp">, position
> 30:
> Too many objects after a list dot


Unfortunately, ECL's streams do not keep line number information. I do not
see how it could be done without adding a significant overhead on the I/O
routines. An alternative would be to adopt Pascal's solution: count the
number of newlines up to that position only when the error is output.

Juanjo

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