1 ;;;; various extensions (including SB-INT "internal extensions")
2 ;;;; available both in the cross-compilation host Lisp and in the
3 ;;;; target SBCL, but which can't be defined on the target until until
4 ;;;; some significant amount of machinery (e.g. error-handling) is
7 ;;;; This software is part of the SBCL system. See the README file for
10 ;;;; This software is derived from the CMU CL system, which was
11 ;;;; written at Carnegie Mellon University and released into the
12 ;;;; public domain. The software is in the public domain and is
13 ;;;; provided with absolutely no warranty. See the COPYING and CREDITS
14 ;;;; files for more information.
16 (in-package "SB!IMPL")
18 ;;; Is X a list for which LENGTH is meaningful, i.e. a list which is
19 ;;; not improper and which is not circular?
20 (defun list-with-length-p (x)
21 (values (ignore-errors (list-length x))))
23 ;;; not used in 0.7.8, but possibly useful for defensive programming
24 ;;; in e.g. (COERCE ... 'VECTOR)
25 ;;;(defun list-length-or-die (x)
26 ;;; (or (list-length x)
27 ;;; ;; not clear how to do this best:
28 ;;; ;; * Should this be a TYPE-ERROR? Colloquially that'd make
29 ;;; ;; lots of sense, but since I'm not sure how to express
30 ;;; ;; "noncircular list" as a Lisp type expression, coding
31 ;;; ;; it seems awkward.
32 ;;; ;; * Should the ERROR object include the offending value?
33 ;;; ;; Ordinarily that's helpful, but if the user doesn't have
34 ;;; ;; his printer set up to deal with cyclicity, we might not
35 ;;; ;; be doing him a favor by printing the object here.
36 ;;; ;; -- WHN 2002-10-19
37 ;;; (error "can't calculate length of cyclic list")))