RE: interesting mail problem

• Date: Sun, 10 Mar 1996 12:41:39 PST
• From:
  Ron Stanions <chaeon@roc.clawpaw.com>
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Aha!  This is the exact error I got which I posted about earlier, wherein
because of the newly added builtins to the callers() stack, the second
time it enters #49:retain_session_on_exit() it's through a pass() call
and #49:ok bombs because it looks at callers()[2][3] for something.

I fixed this by just modifying #46:retain_session_on_exit to do every-
thing it would have done had it called pass().  (Kipp I believe suggested
another method of creating a verb $callers that will return a version of
the list that doesn't contain the builtins.)  Either way you have to do 
some hacking on #46:retain_session_on_exit I think.



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From:  Clint Gardner[SMTP:cgardner@englab.slcc.edu]
Sent:  Sunday, March 10, 1996 4:52 AM
To:  moo-cows@parc.xerox.com
Subject:  interesting mail problem

ok...here's the story...I just upgraded to 1.8.0 from 1.7.9p2 (which 
was done rather recently too).  Aside from a few problems with 
numeric verb names (which come in unexpected places), I haven't had 
much difficulty EXCEPT for the following from the mail editor:
_________________________________________________________
Composing a letter to Wizard (#2) entitled "test"
"hi
Line 1 added.
send
Sending...
Mail actually sent to Wizard (#2)
#42:controls, line 3:  Invalid indirection
... called from #49:ok (this == #46), line 4
... called from #49:changed retain_session_on_exit (this == #46), line 1
... called from built-in function pass()
... called from #46:retain_session_on_exit, line 1
... called from #49:exitfunc (this == #46), line 2
... called from built-in function move()
... called from #56:moveto (this == #2), line 2
... called from #49:done q*uit pause (this == #46), line 9
... called from #46:send, line 41
(End of traceback)
You have new mail (2) from Wizard (#2).
Type `help mail' for info on reading it.
_______________________________________________
Now, unless you think that this is something in my database which is 
goofed, the above was from the DEC25 core....I was perusing the core 
to see if I could find the errant verb, and why it is doing it on my 
year old core...but after a lot of checking I tested the @send on the 
core version, and got the above.  Is it a built-in with a problem?

hmm.

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