Swank-fancy-inspector patch

[Stas Boukarev]

Douglas Katzman <dougk at google.com> writes:

> The patch inlined below fixes the display of DEFTYPE lambda lists.
>
> It's compatible enough with older SBCL - extracting the expander's arglist
> is just a gensym, not technically wrong but not as useful as the
> destructuring lambda list.
> While this could be considered a regression, I don't think it needs
> conditionalizing on SBCL release. The way to do so, in theory, is check
> whether (:type :lambda-list) is a kind of info by asking for meta-info ...
> except that it won't actually fix anything because current SBCL reports
> that (:type :lambda-list) exists, but it never has data.
>
> --- swank-fancy-inspector.lisp~ 2015-04-30 23:24:08.000000000 -0400
> +++ swank-fancy-inspector.lisp 2015-04-30 23:34:31.000000000 -0400
> @@ -119,10 +119,7 @@
>         (unless (eq t fun)
>           (append
>            `("Type-specifier lambda-list: "
> -            ,(inspector-princ
> -              (if (eq :primitive kind)
> -                  (arglist fun)
> -                  (sb-int:info :type :lambda-list symbol)))
> +            ,(inspector-princ (arglist fun))
>              (:newline))
>            (multiple-value-bind (expansion ok)
>                (handler-case (sb-ext:typexpand-1 symbol)
Applied.

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With best regards, Stas.