[slime-devel] Re: SLIME adding its own layer of confusion to error messages

[Peter Seibel]

Helmut Eller <e9626484 at stud3.tuwien.ac.at> writes:

> Peter Seibel <peter at javamonkey.com> writes:
>
>> If we look at the backtrace around lines 5 and 6 we see that the real
>> problem was a NO-APPLICABLE-METHOD which is somehow causing SWANK to
>> pass my object to SWANK:PATHNAME-AS-DIRECTORY. Anyone know what that's
>> about. This is with Allegro, FWIW.
>
> All this is very strange.  There is no symbol PATHNAME-AS-DIRECTORY in
> the SWANK package.  It's in the CL package, but we don't shadow it.
> And we never (directly) call PATHNAME-AS-DIRECTORY or PATHNAME.
>
> Do you add methods to NO-APPLICABLE-METHOD in your code?  I noticed
> that NO-APPLICABLE-METHOD is a bit quirky in Allegro5.  Is this fixed
> in newer versions?

I don't. Dunno about Allegro. I'm using 6.2. I'll dig some more if it
happens again.

-Peter

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Peter Seibel                                      peter at javamonkey.com

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