Re: A Lisp programmer walks into a room Lassi Kortela 15 Sep 2020 21:52 UTC

>>     :) That's one more than in R7RS, which has just file-error? and
>>     read-error?
>
> Perhaps the Scheme could have compound
> conditions where each simple condition is one English word.

Apparently it's quite easy to make intelligible error messages by
combining words:

(no index)
(no key)
(no file)
(no host)
(no process)

(wrong arg)
(wrong file)

(too few arg)
(too many arg)

We've gone right past re-inventing the wheel and re-invented language.

The downside is that these are (no longer funny) :-)