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On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 01:23 -0700, Red Daly wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">however, I am unable to open a store according to the instructions in</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">the two tutorials on the common-lisp.net project site. Here is an</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">example attempt:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">* (open-store "store")</FONT>
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Dear Team,<BR>
This syntax is (very) obsolete, as Ian has pointed out. I don't think this example occurs in <BR>
the current tutorials for elephant itself (here: <A HREF="http://common-lisp.net/project/elephant/doc/),">http://common-lisp.net/project/elephant/doc/),</A> but <BR>
does occur in the "with-araneida" tutorial: <A HREF="http://common-lisp.net/project/elephant/with-araneida/">http://common-lisp.net/project/elephant/with-araneida/</A><BR>
That tutorial is about two years out of date; I think it is still valuable for showing an example <BR>
use of Elephant for a small but meaningful application. It is not really within my power in the <BR>
short term to repair it (although Ian and I have discussed creating a contemporary version of <BR>
something similar, and we would welcome a good "example app" from this list.)<BR>
However, it is terrible that it leaves unmarked examples that are out of date and wasted<BR>
your time. I'm sorry about that and will go clearly indicate the obsolete nature of that tutorial.<BR>
(If you find a bad example in the elephant tutorial, please inform me --- I ran all of those examples<BR>
by hand before the 0.6.0 release, but I have an extraordinary ability to step in a bucket.)<BR>
<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">debugger invoked on a SIMPLE-ERROR in thread</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">#<THREAD "initial thread" {A7B93E1}>:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> The assertion (CONSP ELEPHANT::SPEC) failed.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Type HELP for debugger help, or (SB-EXT:QUIT) to exit from SBCL.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">restarts (invokable by number or by possibly-abbreviated name):</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> 0: [CONTINUE] Retry assertion.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> 1: [ABORT ] Exit debugger, returning to top level.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">(SB-KERNEL:ASSERT-ERROR (CONSP ELEPHANT::SPEC) NIL NIL)</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">0] backtrace</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">0: (SB-KERNEL:ASSERT-ERROR (CONSP ELEPHANT::SPEC) NIL NIL)</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">1: (OPEN-STORE "store" :RECOVER NIL :RECOVER-FATAL NIL :THREAD T)</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">2: (SB-INT:EVAL-IN-LEXENV (OPEN-STORE "store") #<NULL-LEXENV>)</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">3: (SB-EXT:INTERACTIVE-EVAL (OPEN-STORE "store"))</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">4: (SB-IMPL::REPL-FUN NIL)</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">5: ((LAMBDA ()))</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">6: ((LAMBDA ()))</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">7: (SB-IMPL::%WITH-REBOUND-IO-SYNTAX #<CLOSURE (LAMBDA #) {A7F28FD}>)</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">8: (SB-IMPL::TOPLEVEL-REPL NIL)</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">9: (SB-IMPL::TOPLEVEL-INIT)</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">10: ((LABELS SB-IMPL::RESTART-LISP))</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">I would appreciate any help in getting elephant up and running. I am</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">running SBCL 0.9.8, ubuntu dapper, and bdb 4.3 (apt-installable</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">version). I will gladly supply more information to help determine the</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">error of my ways. I can't wait to try out elephant!</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Thanks sincerely,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">red daly</FONT>
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