[slime-devel] "Unbalanced parentheses"

Michael Weber michaelw+slime at foldr.org
Mon Sep 5 08:30:06 UTC 2005


* Paolo Amoroso <amoroso at mclink.it> [2005-09-05T09:49+0200]:
> Edi Weitz <edi at agharta.de> writes:
> 
> > When loading a larger system I'm currently working on I always get
> > "Unbalanced parentheses" errors.  This is most likely due to this
> [...]
> > Nice message, but I don't know where it comes from, i.e. which part of
> > my code it refers to.  SLIME isn't very helpful either in this case
> 
> If you know at least the file name (e.g. by building the system from
> source outside of SLIME), you may try isolating the offending form by
> doing a binary search with compilation/evaluation.

Are your sources containing #| ... |# comments, by chance?  I think
I've seen errors like this as well, and if I recall correctly I could
make them go away by commenting the region with ;; instead.


Cheers,
Michael



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