[slime-devel] Autodoc-arglist display (extract-cursor-marker), Lispworks.

[Tobias C. Rittweiler]

Madhu <enometh at meer.net> writes:

> * Stas Boukarev <87eim25fsh.fsf at gmail.com> :
> Wrote on Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:13:18 +0300:
>
> | Madhu <enometh at meer.net> writes:
> |
> |> * "Tobias C. Rittweiler" <87bph7i8va.fsf at freebits.de> :
> |> Wrote on Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:52:09 +0100:
> |>
> |> |
> |> | Ok these fail because ARGLIST calls REPLACE-STRINGS-WITH-SYMBOLS in
> |> | Lispworks swank-backend -- and that function turns the "Retry."
> |> | initform into a symbol.
> |>
> |> I have been using LWL-5.1 Pers without REPLACE-STRINGS-WITH-SYMBOLS and
> |> have not encountered any problem that REPLACE-STRINGS-WITH-SYMBOLS
> |> solves.
> |>
> |> Is there a test case which fails if REPLACE-STRINGS-WITH-SYMBOLS is not
> |> used?
> |>
> | flet
>
> That does not help.  Can you please provide a test case?  I use flets
> all the time and I dont use your REPLACE-STRINGS-WITH-SYMBOLS function,
> and I haven't seen a problem.

I guess you don't use the slime-autodoc contrib? That one structurally
analyzes the return value of ARGLIST, and is hence bitten if ARGLIST
does not return a valid lambda-list.

  -T.