[slime-devel] cmucl arglist

[Gabor Melis]

On Saturday 24 April 2004 00:21, Helmut Eller wrote:
> Gabor Melis <mega at hotpop.com> writes:
> > In READ-ARGLIST DI::DEBUG-FUNCTION-LAMBDA-LIST signals
> > LAMBDA-LIST-UNAVAILABLE.
>
> Is that a problem?  The docstring for swank:arglist says: "An error
> should be signaled if the lambda-list cannot be found".

Yes. Typing an invocation of  foo puts me into the debugger after every each 
space pressed which is highy annoying. Surely, its isn't the intended 
behavour, is it?

>
> I think all calls to arglist are protected with an ignore-errors form.
> Do you use it for something else?  Perhaps we should return a special
> marker like :dont-know if the lambda-list is not available.
>
> Helmut.