Kevin Ryde [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
so that we pass the bad hostname as one of the exception extra data
items rather than making it the first format string item.
Or alternately, perhaps just quietly drop it. Other system errors
don't include the offending filename or whatever in the throw.
In guile 1.6.3 built on a recent i386 debian, running interactively
and trying to find a non-existant host with
(gethost x)
produces
standard input:1:1: In procedure gethost in expression (gethost x):
standard input:1:1: Unknown host
Exception during displaying of error: