Carl Gay

This won't be much help, but I have distant memories of the compiler folks at Harlequin talking about copy-down methods as a hack that really shouldn't need to exist.

Sadly, I think it's safe to assume no one who worked on the Harlequin Dylan compiler is going to be much help these days. FWIW, if your fix above doesn't...

ok. I'm not a big fan of that approach, especially since we can't get a good compiler warning for passing integers, but I guess I'll close this after making minor...

Relatedly, most errors in the file-system module result from just calling `unix-file-error`, which signals ``. This results in what I consider to be bugs, like that calling `file-property` on a...

I may have reduced that example a little too much. Although I think that example is valid it's important to note that the real problem was more like `let x...

DRM: `A single-line comment may appear within a delimited comment; occurrences of slash-star or star-slash within the single line comment are ignored.` I think this means that the first example...

Same output for `%b`. It seems like there are two things here. The constant should be flagged as not fitting in an `` and whatever that currently ends up turning...

https://github.com/dylan-lang/opendylan/blob/41c98f02cbe184efb6575c82c95565bf03f21a17/sources/io/format.dylan#L267

"5.0e8 should be enough for anyone." --me, 2022 As usual I wish I had put more context when I filed this bug. I suspect it was something someone else was...

Also, judicious use of `\n` would make this a lot easier to read. For example, ``` Warning - Result type check can fail: 8 values expected: ... 8 values inferred:...