Re: [j-devel] jregister-handler questions

[Peter G. <pe...@ar...>]

On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 at 03:19:44 +0100, Andr=E1s_Simon wrote:
> So now I can arrange for the new primitive to autoload, but how do I
> autoload the lisp function (that will call the primitive)? I
> experimented with variations of
>
> (autoload '(java:jregister-handler) "java.lisp")
>
> in autoloads.lisp (java.lisp exports 'jregister-handler), but all I
> could achieve is crash lisp at startup :-(
> Maybe it's because it's two in the morning here, but I'm clueless.

Unless JREGISTER-HANDLER is exported in Java code (i.e. from a .java
file), the symbol won't be external when autoloads.lisp is processed by
the Lisp reader, so you'll need to do:

    (autoload '(java::jregister-handler) "java.lisp")
                    ^^

As, for example, in line 101 of autoloads.lisp:

    (autoload '(tpl::top-level-loop) "top-level.lisp")
                   ^^

If you use one colon instead of two in this situation, you'll get a
reader error, but since the error happens before the error-reporting
machinery is set up to report it properly, all you see is a Java
stack trace. I really should fix that. Sorry for the inconvenience!

-Peter