[elephant-devel] trouble getting going (with open-store, ...)

[Robert L. Read]

On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 01:23 -0700, Red Daly wrote:

> 
> 
> however, I am unable to open a store according to the instructions in
> the two tutorials on the common-lisp.net project site.  Here is an
> example attempt:
> 
> * (open-store "store")

Dear Team,
    This syntax is (very) obsolete, as Ian has pointed out.  I don't
think this example occurs in 
the current tutorials for elephant itself (here: http://common-
lisp.net/project/elephant/doc/), but 
does occur in the "with-araneida" tutorial: http://common-
lisp.net/project/elephant/with-araneida/
That tutorial is about two years out of date; I think it is still
valuable for showing an example 
use of Elephant for a small but meaningful application.  It is not
really within my power in the 
short term to repair it (although Ian and I have discussed creating a
contemporary version of 
something similar, and we would welcome a good "example app" from this
list.)
    However, it is terrible that it leaves unmarked examples that are
out of date and wasted
your time.  I'm sorry about that and will go clearly indicate the
obsolete nature of that tutorial.
(If you find a bad example in the elephant tutorial, please inform me
--- I ran all of those examples
by hand before the 0.6.0 release, but I have an extraordinary ability to
step in a bucket.)



> 
> debugger invoked on a SIMPLE-ERROR in thread
> #<THREAD "initial thread" {A7B93E1}>:
>   The assertion (CONSP ELEPHANT::SPEC) failed.
> 
> Type HELP for debugger help, or (SB-EXT:QUIT) to exit from SBCL.
> 
> restarts (invokable by number or by possibly-abbreviated name):
>   0: [CONTINUE] Retry assertion.
>   1: [ABORT   ] Exit debugger, returning to top level.
> 
> (SB-KERNEL:ASSERT-ERROR (CONSP ELEPHANT::SPEC) NIL NIL)
> 0] backtrace
> 
> 0: (SB-KERNEL:ASSERT-ERROR (CONSP ELEPHANT::SPEC) NIL NIL)
> 1: (OPEN-STORE "store" :RECOVER NIL :RECOVER-FATAL NIL :THREAD T)
> 2: (SB-INT:EVAL-IN-LEXENV (OPEN-STORE "store") #<NULL-LEXENV>)
> 3: (SB-EXT:INTERACTIVE-EVAL (OPEN-STORE "store"))
> 4: (SB-IMPL::REPL-FUN NIL)
> 5: ((LAMBDA ()))
> 6: ((LAMBDA ()))
> 7: (SB-IMPL::%WITH-REBOUND-IO-SYNTAX #<CLOSURE (LAMBDA #) {A7F28FD}>)
> 8: (SB-IMPL::TOPLEVEL-REPL NIL)
> 9: (SB-IMPL::TOPLEVEL-INIT)
> 10: ((LABELS SB-IMPL::RESTART-LISP))
> 
> 
> I would appreciate any help in getting elephant up and running.  I am
> running SBCL 0.9.8, ubuntu dapper, and bdb 4.3 (apt-installable
> version).  I will gladly supply more information to help determine the
> error of my ways.  I can't wait to try out elephant!
> 
> Thanks sincerely,
> red daly
> 
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