[plt-scheme] FFI error in 4.0

From: Eli Barzilay (eli at barzilay.org)
Date: Fri Jul 4 16:44:17 EDT 2008

On Jul  4, Jakub Piotr C?apa wrote:
> Eli Barzilay wrote:
> > Well, yeah, but the pattern was there, and you pointed and
> > `define-cpointer-type'.  So it took me about 30 seconds to open
> > the file, find the error, and fix it (and most of that was spent
> > in openning the file and writing a commit message...).
> 
> I was rather referring to my problem with finding what's wrong (in
> code I wrote several months ago) without any line numbers.
> 
> Why the error was lacking any context information? How is such thing
> possible with the whole syntax objects thing? (Sorry if this sounds
> criticising, I had no such intentions. I am just curious. :))

I don't know why it doesn't have source information.  My guess is that
it's more like the runtime error you get from (car '()).

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