[slime-devel] Re: What expressions can be inspected with slime-inspect?

Paolo Amoroso amoroso@mclink.it writes:

What kind of expressions it is possible to inspect with the `slime-inspect' command? Suppose I evaluate this in a SLIME repl:

(defclass my-class () ((a) (b))

then invoke `slime-inspect' from a Lisp mode buffer with `C-c I' and type:

(make-instance 'cl-user::my-class)

Should work fine, assuming you did the defclass in the CL-USER package. Works for me in CMUCL 19a-pre3.

I get this error:

Error in function PCL::FIND-CLASS-FROM-CELL: No class named: COMMON-LISP-USER::MY-CLASS. [Condition of type SIMPLE-ERROR]

How about if you do the make-instance call from e.g. the REPL instead?

It would be strange if it's inspector-specific. The inspector just does READ and EVAL on the input.

-Luke