Hi Mark,
what a pity! I really think the combination of J and ABCL is a superb platform for Common Lisp development. Alas I do not like Emacs and J is like a fresh breeze.
I'd very much like this issue to be fixed by somebody in the know.
Thx for the prompt and to the point response!
Regards, Arie
2011/1/17 Mark Evenson evenson@panix.com
On Jan 16, 2011, at 10:21 PM, Arie van Wingerden wrote:
Hi, I just started with ABCL using the J editor on WinXP SP3.
I replaced the ABCL jar in the J lib with the latest 0.23.1, but also in
the old
version ABCL 0.19 I had the same errors.
I am able to create and save a very simple lisp file. However, when I use the menu function: Mode | Compile and load file I get this:
[1] CL-USER(3): ;;; Compiling and loading D:\src\lisp\plus.lisp ... #<THREAD "JLisp interpreter" {FD5428}>: Debugger invoked on condition of
type
FILE-ERROR The file "D:/src/lisp/srclispplus.lisp" does not exist.
It seems that somewhere under the hood the filename gets corrupted. Trying to change the name using double backslashes in the text box above
the
source file does have no effect.
Can I change this behaviour?
From your report, it seems likely that you are encountering problems stemming from the use of forward slash as the PATHNAME separator on all platforms in [abcl-0.21][1] (N.B. strings with backslash characters are normalized by the PATHNAME routines to forward slashes so such input should be fine). What is odd about your report, is that abcl-0.19 does not have this "all slashes become forward slashes" behavior, so it should not produce the same kind of error.
Unfortunately, ABCL development was split off from J quite some time ago (three years?). Wethe ABCL developers on armedbear-developdo not actively test with the J source tree, nor do we make the J releases. If there are J developers out there who wish help bringing the integrated ABCL release forward to solve this issue, we would be more than happy to assist by debugging/modifying our side.
[1] http://trac.common-lisp.net/armedbear/changeset/12798
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