Re: [Matlisp-users] SBCL Problems (odd number of &KEY arguments)

[Raymond T. <ray...@er...>]

>>>>> "Ryan" == Ryan Adams <rp...@ca...> writes:

    Ryan> On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 12:04 -0400, Raymond Toy wrote:
    >> It's probably not a good idea to (use-package "MATLISP") when you're
    >> in the CL-USER package.  You probably want to do (in-package
    >> "MATLISP").
    >> 
    >> Second, try it without slime.  

    Ryan> I've tried this with both (in-package "MATLISP") and (in-package
    Ryan> "MATLISP-USER") with the same result (below).  One observation: at home,
    Ryan> on my Gentoo machine, I have SBCL 0.8.21 and have gone through the same
    Ryan> procedure.  It complains identically down to the bit about "printed 5
    Ryan> notes", but then prints the correct help output.  Also, it *seems* that
    Ryan> in both cases, the installation itself is alright.  If I type (rand 1),
    Ryan> for example, I get an appropriate output.  Would indicate that it is
    Ryan> just something broken with the man system?

Not sure, but if the same version of matlisp and sbcl works on one
machine but not another, then the machines are somehow different.

    Ryan> Type HELP for debugger help, or (SB-EXT:QUIT) to exit from SBCL.

    Ryan> restarts (invokable by number or by possibly-abbreviated name):
    Ryan>   0: [ABORT] Exit debugger, returning to top level.

    Ryan> ((SB-PCL::FAST-METHOD DOCUMENTATION (SYMBOL (EQL 'STRUCTURE)))
    Ryan>  #<unavailable argument>
    Ryan>  #<unavailable argument>
    Ryan>  MATLISP::A
    Ryan>  #<unavailable argument>)
    Ryan> 0] 


Can you "backtrace" here to get a backtrace?

I think help should be a smaller macro, but that's an implementation
issue.

Ray