18 The SYSTEM Package

file-encoding-resolution-error

Condition

Summary

An error type to signal when an external file format cannot be deduced.

Package

system

Superclasses

error

Slots

pathname: Pathname identifying location of file containing unrecognizable format.
external-format: An external file format.
element-type: An element type.

Description

An error type signalled whenopen,load orcompile-file fail to detect an external format to use. The pathname slot contains the pathname as defaulted by the caller. The external-format and element-type slots contain the arguments the caller received.

See also

guess-external-format