Re: PATCH: #+CMU arglist tweaks

Hannu Koivisto <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.ilisp.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Bob Rogers <[email protected]> writes:

>    1.  This patch makes it possible to get the arglist of a traced
> function in CMUCL, by looking beneath the trace encapsulation.

As far as I can see, your patch is overly complicated, the original
code is fine except that SYMBOL-FUNCTION must be replaced with
FDEFINITION.  See the CMUCL manual for the description of the
encapsulation mechanism.

> It also renders "NIL" as "()", because that's the way most people write
> empty arglists.  (It seems to me that this shouldn't be part of the
> CMUCL-specific code, but should be centralized so that these kinds of UI
> presentation decisions can be made consistently across implementations.
> Comments?)

Makes sense.

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Hannu
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