GNU bug report logs - #63115
match-record cryptic error message on unbound record type

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2023 14:28:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: "(" <paren <at> disroot.org>
To: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>, bug-guix <at> gnu.org,
 63115 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#63115: match-record cryptic error message on unbound record
 type
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2023 23:10:52 +0100

Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com> writes:
> When a record type is not in scope, the error message produced by the
> match-record macro from (guix records) reads something like:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> guix/records.scm:598:32: map-fields: bad use of syntactic keyword in subform map-fields of map-fields
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Josselin made a patch, which I adapted and submitted at
<https://issues.guix.gnu.org/63135>.
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