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Misleading documentation about restarts about clasp HOT 4 CLOSED

clasp-developers commented on May 30, 2024

Misleading documentation about restarts

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artob commented on May 30, 2024

I have commit bits to ECL. Could you clarify what exactly needs fixing, please?

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fmitha commented on May 30, 2024

On Tue, 7 Oct 2014, Arto Bendiken wrote:

I have commit bits to ECL. Could you clarify what exactly needs
fixing, please?

Hi,

The directions for restarts in ECL are ambiguous at best. See
below. It says

 1. (RESTART-TOPLEVEL) Go back to Top-Level REPL.

The natural assumption is that you need to type "1". But if you do "1"
it doesn't work. You have to do :r1. How are you supposed to know
that is what you need to do?

It should state explicitly that you need to do :r1, or :rn in
general.

                                                  R egards, Faheem

faheem@orwell:~$ rlwrap ecl
ECL (Embeddable Common-Lisp) 13.5.1 (git:UNKNOWN)
Copyright (C) 1984 Taiichi Yuasa and Masami Hagiya
Copyright (C) 1993 Giuseppe Attardi
Copyright (C) 2000 Juan J. Garcia-Ripoll
ECL is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; see file 'Copyright' for details.
Type :h for Help.
Top level in: #<process TOP-LEVEL>.
> (1 1)

Condition of type: SIMPLE-PROGRAM-ERROR
In form
(1 1)
FUNCTION: Not a valid argument 1.

Available restarts:

1. (RESTART-TOPLEVEL) Go back to Top-Level REPL.

Broken at SI:BYTECODES. [Evaluation of: (SI:TOP-LEVEL T)] In: #<process
TOP-LEVEL>.
>> 1

1
>> :r1

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