Re: How can I obtain type errors

Subject: Re: How can I obtain type errors
From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no>
Date: 1999/06/02
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp.franz,comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <3137330611201836@naggum.no>

* Antonio Garrido Tejero <agarrido@dsic.upv.es>
| I'm using Allegro Common Lisp and I want to define a function with
| arguments of a specific type.

  why?

| For example, the typical function:
| 
| (defun df* (a b)
|      (declare (double-float a b))
|      (* a b))
| 
| should fail with (df* 2 3), but it works!

  great, isn't it?

| How can I get a type error?

  you can do

(defun fd* (a b)
  (check-type a double-float)
  (check-type a double-float)
  (* a b))

  if you think you are going to win a speed contest with your type
  "checking", you aren't.  is that why you want this stuff?

#:Erik
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@1999-07-22T00:37:33Z -- pi billion seconds since the turn of the century