Open parenthesis in the documentation string confuses slime-compile-defun.
Exmaple:
(defun f2 () " ( ... ) " )
Note, open parenthesis shuld be the first character of the line.
Trying to compile this with slime-compile-defun signals the following:
READ from #1=#<INPUT STRING-INPUT-STREAM>: a token consisting only of dots cannot be meaningfully read in [Condition of type SYSTEM::SIMPLE-READER-ERROR]
Looks like on the emacs side slime takes this open parenthesis into account when picking out parentheses-balanced portion of text.
Regards, -Anton
On Fri, 24 Nov 2006 06:56:40 +0200, Anton Vodonosov vodonosov@mail.ru wrote:
Open parenthesis in the documentation string confuses slime-compile-defun.
Exmaple:
(defun f2 () " ( ... ) " )
Note, open parenthesis shuld be the first character of the line.
Trying to compile this with slime-compile-defun signals the following:
READ from #1=#<INPUT STRING-INPUT-STREAM>: a token consisting only of dots cannot be meaningfully read in [Condition of type SYSTEM::SIMPLE-READER-ERROR]
Looks like on the emacs side slime takes this open parenthesis into account when picking out parentheses-balanced portion of text.
That's a (known and old) Emacs problem that's not really related to SLIME. The usual workaround (see for example the SLIME source code itself) is to escape open parens in strings:
(defun f2 () " ( ... ) " )
See also here:
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/Left-Margin-Paren.html
HTH, Edi.
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Anton Vodonosov -
Edi Weitz