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Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Fix bad call in chicken-install error situ
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Peter Bex |
Subject: |
Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Fix bad call in chicken-install error situation |
Date: |
Tue, 17 Jul 2012 21:21:55 +0200 |
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On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 02:44:58PM -0400, Mario Domenech Goulart wrote:
> Shouldn't `with-default-sources' give something like
>
> (lambda ()
> (with-output-to-port (current-error-port)
> (lambda ()
> (print "Could not determine a source of extensions. "
> "Please, specify a location and a transport for a
> source.")))
> (exit 1))
>
> as the third argument to proc? Or maybe it could simply abort instead
> of calling proc.
I don't know. This code is confusing. Maybe Felix can chime in.
> Also, maybe `list-available-extensions' should test against `(and trans
> locn)' since the procedures wrapped by `list-extensions' would error out
> if given a location as #f.
That's what I expected, but it doesn't error out. I don't understand why.
Cheers,
Peter
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