Various system facilities don't bind I/O control variables effectively
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| SBCL |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
This is more or less a generalization of https:/
SINGLE-STEP binds *PRINT-PRETTY* to T, but doesn't establish control over the pprint dispatch table. Same shortcomings as described in the previous issue with TRACE. Likewise for DESCRIBE. The INSPECTOR doesn't appear to try to control its environment at all.
At this time I don't have comprehensive recommendations for each facility, but attached is a draft of an approach to streamlining treatment of bundles I/O variables (or any sets of specials, really). The functionality could be simpler, but probably not compatibly: my goal was to subsume the I/O control variable rebinding patterns I could spot in SBCL's sources.
If anyone reading this likes the approach and wants to see it turned into a patch, let me know.
| Richard M Kreuter (kreuter) wrote | #1 |
