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M-x guix-edit fails gracelessly when passed an nonexistent package name

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From: Alex Kost <alezost <at> gmail.com>
To: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
Cc: 22933 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Mathieu Lirzin <mthl <at> gnu.org>
Subject: bug#22933: M-x guix-edit fails gracelessly when passed an nonexistent package name
Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2016 02:03:56 +0300

Ludovic Courtès (2016-03-08 00:03 +0300) wrote:

[...]
>> what about using (not tested):
>>
>>   (and=> (or (package-by-id id-or-name)
>>              (match (packages-by-name id-or-name)
>>                (()        #f)
>>                ((pkg ..1) pkg)))
>>          (compose location->string package-location))
>
> I like it too!
>
>> I know you love my 'pkg' identifier.  ;)
>
> No I don’t!  :-)
>
> I think we should stick to one identifier style, which is to always use
> full words (I’m often tempted to use abbreviations and I force myself
> not to, as silly as I am!)

Good to know, I always thought that things like "pkg" or "drv" are OK in
a local scope.

-- 
Alex

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