[Ecls-list] slime/swank problem

[Daniel Herring]

Hi all,

I'm having trouble with tab completion in current Slime and ECL (237af2).

I've traced the root cause to Slime's swank.lisp.  In particular, it 
appears that the "defvar *swank-io-package*" isn't taking effect before 
the body of "parse-package" is compiled.

This shows up in *inferior-lisp* as
;;; Style warning:
;;;   in file swank.lisp, position 62852
;;;   at (DEFUN PARSE-PACKAGE ...)
;;;   ! The argument 1 of function FIND-PACKAGE has type
;;; ARRAY-INDEX
;;; instead of expected
;;; PACKAGE-DESIGNATOR

This causes (swank::guess-package "cl") to return NIL instead of the 
COMMON-LISP package.  Re-evaluating the definition for parse-package is 
sufficient to clear the problem and restore proper tab completion.

CVS logs for slime show that the relevant sections of swank.lisp have been 
unchanged for a few years.  This code still works fine for SBCL on my 
system.  Thus I believe the problem is in ECL or my install of it.

While I plan on bisecting the problem, I was hoping others could confirm 
or deny seeing the same problem.  If you use ECL under Slime, what do 
(swank::guess-package "cl") and (swank-loader::ecl-version-string) return 
for you?

Thanks,
Daniel