Re: [pro] Some error/condition standardization anyone?

2011-06-28 Thread Pascal Costanza
On 27 Jun 2011, at 17:47, Marco Antoniotti wrote: > Doesn't anybody think that it would be a good thing to have a CDR suggesting > an agreed upon extension of the CL standard ERROR/CONDITION hierarchy? I think this is a good idea, and would be of great practical value. It may a good idea to use

Re: [pro] Some error/condition standardization anyone?

2011-06-28 Thread Erik Winkels
On 28 jun. 2011, at 13:34, Marco Antoniotti wrote: > > I agree that this should be worked on cooperatively. I do not know if this > should be a "big" proposal. Perhaps a first step would be gathering up all the work-around / wrapper code that people have produced to deal with these issues?

[pro] Some error/condition standardization anyone?

2011-06-27 Thread Robert Strandh
Hello Marco, Marco Antoniotti writes: > > Doesn't anybody think that it would be a good thing to have a CDR > suggesting an agreed upon extension of the CL standard > ERROR/CONDITION hierarchy? Definitely! While working on a portable implementation of the functions in the sequences dictiona

Re: [pro] Some error/condition standardization anyone?

2011-06-27 Thread Didier Verna
Marco Antoniotti wrote: > Now, this is a specific case for me: having a consistent > READER-ERROR-BECAUSE-THERE-IS-NO-SUCH-PACKAGE-THAT-THE-SYSTEM-KNOWS > error signaled would simplify some code writing. > > Doesn't anybody think that it would be a good thing to have a CDR > suggesting an agreed u