Re: HTMLGEN: arguments can't be adjustable strings?

It could have been coded that way for efficiency considerations
rather than as an oversight.

That being said if the documentation says 'strings' are allowed
then it would be a bug (in the documentation if nothing else).


At 10:12 PM 12/22/03, Andrew Philpot wrote:

>The following works:
>
>CL-USER(667): (let ((zero (make-array 1
>                              :element-type 'character)))
>                 (setf (aref zero 0) #\0)
>                 (net.html.generator:html-stream
>                 *standard-output*
>                 ((:table :border zero))))
><table BORDER="0"></table>
>"</table>"
>
>But if I use an adjustable string instead, HTMLGEN generates an error:
>
>CL-USER(668): (let ((zero (make-array 0
>                              :element-type 'character
>                              :adjustable t
>                              :fill-pointer t)))
>                 (vector-push-extend #\0 zero)
>                 (net.html.generator:html-stream
>                 *standard-output*
>                 ((:table :border zero))))
><table BORDER="
>Error: `"0"' is not of the expected type `SIMPLE-STRING'
>   [condition type: TYPE-ERROR]
>
>Restart actions (select using :continue):
>  0: Return to Top Level (an "abort" restart).
>  1: Abort entirely from this process.
>[1] CL-USER(669):
>
>A bug?
>
>Andrew