Re: What does this error mean in clisp?

Oh, I didn't know that link even existed.  Thanks for letting me know!

On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 10:11 PM, Sam Steingold <[email protected]> wrote:

> observe this note in the beginning of your paste:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> Type :h and hit Enter for context help.
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> I added it many years ago in the hope that it would be useful, but,
> apparently, it is not.
>
> Now,
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> [7]> (expt 4 20))
> 1099511627776
> [8]>
> *** - READ from #<INPUT CONCATENATED-STREAM #<INPUT STRING-INPUT-STREAM>
> #<IO TERMINAL-STREAM>>: an object cannot start with #\)
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> so you typed 2 closing parens instead of one and clisp is telling you
> just that.
> clisp keeps reading your input, it is not limited to one form per line,
> e.g.:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> [1]> (1+ 1) (! 10)
> 2
> [2]>
> 3628800
> [3]>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> so when it is done reading (expt 4 20), it reads ) and tells you that
> it's not okay.
>
> now, if you want to know how to debug an error or get out of the error
> prompts, you should either follow the first message you got from clisp
> (see above, i.e., type :h RET) or, better yet, RTFM
> (http://clisp.org/impnotes/repl.html).
>
>
> --
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