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Re: Inscrutable error when using “guix deploy”
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Jakob L. Kreuze |
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Re: Inscrutable error when using “guix deploy” |
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Thu, 05 Sep 2019 10:21:28 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.2 (gnu/linux) |
Hi Ludovic + Ricardo!
Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> writes:
>> We could probably arrange so that ‘gexp->sexp’ reports about objects
>> without a read syntax that remain in the resulting sexp.
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> This is a good idea. It’s never the right thing for unreadable syntax
> to appear in a generated S-expression when using Gexps, so producing an
> error at conversion time seems much better.
I agree that this would be a good way of going about improving error
reporting. Admittedly, I have very little experience augmenting the Lisp
reader, so I wouldn't be much help here.
Regards,
Jakob
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