Ticket #296 (new defect)

Opened 8 months ago

Last modified 4 days ago

Misleading error message for invalid slot option

Reported by: hans Assigned to: gb
Priority: minor Milestone:
Component: Compiler Version:
Keywords: Cc:

Description

When a slot option is not recognized as valid, CCL responds with an opaque error message that is not helpful. 

Welcome to Clozure Common Lisp Version 1.2-r9337MS  (FreebsdX8664)!
? (defclass foo () ((slot :initargs :blub))) 
> Error: value :BLUB is not of the expected type LIST.
> While executing: #<CCL::STANDARD-KERNEL-METHOD COMPUTE-EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION (CCL::SLOTS-CLASS T T)>, in process listener(1).

Change History

01/03/09 12:44:23 changed by rme

  • priority changed from major to minor.
  • component changed from Infrastructure and Support to Compiler.