My office mate and I both use Slime with Franz Allegro Lisp and we both see this problem. It's been occuring for the past couple of years since we started using slime and I'm finally annoyed enough with it to dig in and try to fix it. If anyone can point me in the right direction it would be appreciated.
The problem:
In short, any restart which tries to take an argument causes the error
attempt to unread too many characters on #<TWO-WAY-STREAM "" @ #x10000ee1ad2> [Condition of type SIMPLE-ERROR]
For example, in a fresh REPL:
; SLIME 2013-09-29 CL-USER> a
Which results in:
Attempt to take the value of the unbound variable `A'. [Condition of type UNBOUND-VARIABLE]
Restarts: 0: [TRY-AGAIN] Try evaluating A again. 1: [EVALUATE-ALTERNATIVE] Use :A instead. 2: [STORE-VALUE] Set the symbol-value of A and use its value. 3: [USE-VALUE] Use a value without setting A. 4: [RETRY] Retry SLIME REPL evaluation request. 5: [*ABORT] Return to SLIME's top level. --more--
Select restart #2 and enter the value 10
enter an expression which will evaluate to a new value: 10
Results in:
attempt to unread too many characters on #<TWO-WAY-STREAM "" @ #x100010c8c22> [Condition of type SIMPLE-ERROR]
Restarts: 0: [EVALUATE-ALTERNATIVE] Use :A instead. 1: [STORE-VALUE] Set the symbol-value of A and use its value. 2: [USE-VALUE] Use a value without setting A. 3: [RETRY] Retry SLIME REPL evaluation request. 4: [*ABORT] Return to SLIME's top level. 5: [ABORT] Abort entirely from this (lisp) process.
Is this a problem with Franz Lisp? Slime, Swank? I'm not really sure where I should start looking at this point. Any help is appreciated.
Thanks, Andrew Myers
Andrew Myers asm198@gmail.com writes:
attempt to unread too many characters on #<TWO-WAY-STREAM "" @ #x100010c8c22>
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Is this a problem with Franz Lisp? Slime, Swank? I'm not really sure where I should start looking at this point. Any help is appreciated.
I believe this is an ACL bug. You can reproduce it independently of slime-repl as follows:
(handler-bind ((error (lambda (e) (let ((*query-io* (make-two-way-stream (swank-backend:make-input-stream (lambda () (format nil "10~%"))) *query-io*))) (invoke-restart-interactively 'store-value))))) (eval 'a))
It seems that INVOKE-RESTART-INTERACTIVELY or something else more specific to the STORE-VALUE restart is doing too many UNREAD-CHARs which is not supported by the gray stream that SWANK has setup for *QUERY-IO*. (I don't remember enough details about gray streams to know whether this a general gray stream thing or something else.)
Also, this happens in ACL 9.0 but not ACL 8.1.
Can you report it to Franz?
Cheers, Luís
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I've talked to Franz about this and they're working on a patch for 9.0 and later for 8.2. Thanks for the help, Andrew
On 10/17/2013 06:25 AM, Luís Oliveira wrote:
Andrew Myers asm198@gmail.com writes:
attempt to unread too many characters on #<TWO-WAY-STREAM "" @ #x100010c8c22>
[...]
Is this a problem with Franz Lisp? Slime, Swank? I'm not really sure where I should start looking at this point. Any help is appreciated.
I believe this is an ACL bug. You can reproduce it independently of slime-repl as follows:
(handler-bind ((error (lambda (e) (let ((*query-io* (make-two-way-stream (swank-backend:make-input-stream (lambda () (format nil "10~%"))) *query-io*))) (invoke-restart-interactively 'store-value))))) (eval 'a))
It seems that INVOKE-RESTART-INTERACTIVELY or something else more specific to the STORE-VALUE restart is doing too many UNREAD-CHARs which is not supported by the gray stream that SWANK has setup for *QUERY-IO*. (I don't remember enough details about gray streams to know whether this a general gray stream thing or something else.)
Also, this happens in ACL 9.0 but not ACL 8.1.
Can you report it to Franz?
Cheers, Luís
Thanks for narrowing down the behavior. I've queried Franz about it and will let you know what their response is.
Andrew
On 10/17/2013 06:25 AM, Luís Oliveira wrote:
Andrew Myers asm198@gmail.com writes:
attempt to unread too many characters on #<TWO-WAY-STREAM "" @ #x100010c8c22>
[...]
Is this a problem with Franz Lisp? Slime, Swank? I'm not really sure where I should start looking at this point. Any help is appreciated.
I believe this is an ACL bug. You can reproduce it independently of slime-repl as follows:
(handler-bind ((error (lambda (e) (let ((*query-io* (make-two-way-stream (swank-backend:make-input-stream (lambda () (format nil "10~%"))) *query-io*))) (invoke-restart-interactively 'store-value))))) (eval 'a))
It seems that INVOKE-RESTART-INTERACTIVELY or something else more specific to the STORE-VALUE restart is doing too many UNREAD-CHARs which is not supported by the gray stream that SWANK has setup for *QUERY-IO*. (I don't remember enough details about gray streams to know whether this a general gray stream thing or something else.)
Also, this happens in ACL 9.0 but not ACL 8.1.
Can you report it to Franz?
Cheers, Luís
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