Re: Not understanding eval traceback (Seconded)

• Date: Sat, 11 May 1996 08:40:24 PDT
• From:
  Saint Erroneous <mpv@st-andrews.ac.uk>
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On Sat, 11 May 1996, Geoffrey King wrote:

> In case your dubious, here is the entire train of events:
> Entered the following:
>   @verb me:r6 this none this
>   @edit me:r6
>   "return 6;
>   compile
>   quit
>   eval caller:r6()
> 
> Got back:
>   wizard>> eval caller:r6()
>   #-1:Input to EVAL, line 1:  Verb not found
>   ... called from built-in function eval()
>   ... called from #57:eval_cmd_string (this == #2), line 18
>   ... called from #57:eval*-d (this == #2), line 10
>   (End of traceback)

You forgot to set the verb to be +x, so eval won't be able to find it.

@chmod me:r6 +x

should do the trick.

-michael

• Re: Not understanding eval traceback (Seconded)
• From: "Geoffrey King" <G.King@mailbox.uq.oz.au>

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