Don't use WRITE-TO-STRING in ->TYPE-NAME; it gets called too early in

the cold load.

diff --git a/v7/src/runtime/record.scm b/v7/src/runtime/record.scm
index d98c746125e908b510da1c96ee4164e1d17614f1..13a3b277c8acff307fe232ca10766e0a4d3bd4f2 100644 (file)
--- a/v7/src/runtime/record.scm
+++ b/v7/src/runtime/record.scm
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #| -*-Scheme-*-
 
-$Id: record.scm,v 1.35 2003/03/07 21:18:22 cph Exp $
+$Id: record.scm,v 1.36 2003/03/08 02:05:50 cph Exp $
 
 Copyright 1989,1990,1991,1993,1994,1996 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 Copyright 1997,2002,2003 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
@@ -400,9 +400,9 @@ USA.
 
 (define (->type-name object)
   (let* ((string
-         (if (string? object)
-             object
-             (write-to-string object)))
+         (cond ((string? object) object)
+               ((symbol? object) (symbol-name object))
+               (else (error:wrong-type-argument object "type name" #f))))
         (n (string-length string)))
     (if (and (fix:> n 2)
             (char=? (string-ref string 0) #\<)