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4 points by fallintothis 5299 days ago | link | parent

I don't know how to make the top-level error handler "disp" instead of "write" the error message, but you see the idea.

I always thought it was silly for Arc to use write for error messages. It seems deliberate, but I'm not sure why. The fix is simple:

  $ diff -u old-ac.scm new-ac.scm
  --- old-ac.scm  2010-05-22 21:32:25.000000000 -0700
  +++ new-ac.scm  2010-05-22 21:34:04.000000000 -0700
  @@ -1137,7 +1137,7 @@
     (on-err (lambda (c)
               (set! last-condition* c)
               (display "Error: ")
  -            (write (exn-message c))
  +            (display (exn-message c))
               (newline)
               (tl2))
       (lambda ()