Re: [Sbcl-devel] Misleading error message- implication is I called COMPILE-FILE when I didn't

[Paul K. <pv...@pv...>]

Douglas Katzman wrote:
> * (load "/tmp/foo.lisp")
>
> debugger invoked on a SB-C::INPUT-ERROR-IN-COMPILE-FILE in thread
> #<THREAD "main thread" RUNNING {1002ACB573}>:
>    READ error during COMPILE-FILE:
>
>      Symbol "SOME-FN" not found in the FRED package.
>
>        Line: 6, Column: 15, File-Position: 99
>
>        Stream: #<SB-SYS:FD-STREAM for "file /private/tmp/foo.lisp"
> {100325E1C3}>

Agreed, that is definitely not ideal. It's also far from the only 
instance in SBCL of implementation details leaking into error reporting. 
I'm not sure that attempting to handle these conditions and resignal 
LOAD-specific versions is really a good choice either though, so no 
particularly easy fix immediately comes to my mind.

Record that as a low-priority bug on launchpad?

Paul Khuong