[lift-devel] Dynamic Variables?

[Gary King]

Hi Vyacheslav,

You're not doing anything wrong; you are doing something I didn't  
anticipate!

LIFT assumes that all the variables listed in the :dynamic-variables  
clause will have been previously defined via defvar or defparameter.  
Adding

(defvar *foo*)

will make things work the way you expect. I'm not sure whether to  
think of this as a bug or a feature. What do you think?


On Aug 15, 2008, at 6:02 PM, Vyacheslav Akhmechet wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have the latest asdf-installable version of Lift. I am trying the
> following example:
>
> (deftestsuite my-test-suite ()
>  ()
>  (:dynamic-variables
>   (*foo* t)))
>
> (defun foo ()
>  (declare (special *foo*))
>  *foo*)
>
> (addtest (my-test-suite)
>  some-test
>  (ensure-same (foo) t))
>
> When I run the test with (describe (run-test)) I get the following  
> result:
>
> Test Report for MY-TEST-SUITE: 1 test run, 1 Error.
>
> ERROR  : my-test-suite : some-test
>  Condition: The variable *FOO* is unbound.
>  Code     : "
>  ((ENSURE-SAME (FOO) T))"
>
> Test Report for MY-TEST-SUITE: 1 test run, 1 Error.; No value
>
> Why is *foo* unbound? Am I doing something wrong?
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