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| author | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2014-07-17 15:40:06 +0200 |
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| committer | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2014-07-17 15:40:06 +0200 |
| commit | 2cf0ea0dbbd5a43a62dadb81948ee29898585dd7 (patch) | |
| tree | 742b2ea6f4f270f93dd1f0b2acda4ba14a5f806d /guix/gexp.scm | |
| parent | 8aaaae38a37f806a62284c6bce116586d8b66b87 (diff) | |
gexp: Gracefully handle printing of gexps with spliced references.
* guix/gexp.scm (write-gexp): Wrap 'write' call in
'false-if-exception'.
* tests/gexp.scm ("printer", "printer vs. ungexp-splicing"): New tests.
Diffstat (limited to 'guix/gexp.scm')
| -rw-r--r-- | guix/gexp.scm | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/guix/gexp.scm b/guix/gexp.scm index 260118affa..c9f6cbe99a 100644 --- a/guix/gexp.scm +++ b/guix/gexp.scm @@ -60,7 +60,12 @@ (define (write-gexp gexp port) "Write GEXP on PORT." (display "#<gexp " port) - (write (apply (gexp-proc gexp) (gexp-references gexp)) port) + + ;; Try to write the underlying sexp. Now, this trick doesn't work when + ;; doing things like (ungexp-splicing (gexp ())) because GEXP's procedure + ;; tries to use 'append' on that, which fails with wrong-type-arg. + (false-if-exception + (write (apply (gexp-proc gexp) (gexp-references gexp)) port)) (format port " ~a>" (number->string (object-address gexp) 16))) |