On Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 9:18 PM Camm Maguire <c...@maguirefamily.org> wrote:
> Greetings! I see we've been on parallel paths. > > I've committed a lisp-array-alike1 to gcl_cleanup for review. With this > and a gcl/unicode version of gobble-whitespace also committed to this > branch, there are no unexpected test failures with maxima/GCL 2.6.14. > > I'll update the testsuite file for the GCL expectations, and review the > remaining expected failures. > > To my understanding, I also 'own' the #-=kcl conditional. I'll review > and clean these as well if there are no objections. > Do we really support kcl at all anymore? I think kcl has been mostly replaced by gcl. I think all the kcl conditionals should be removed. If that's the case, it's best to do that on a separate branch so that they all get removed together without other changes getting mixed in. It makes figuring out what happened easier and git bisect easier too. > > I say your very helpful bug report at savannah -- thanks! They indeed > seem to have changed the web interface so that no one can close bugs. > I'll correspond with them on this. > > Take care, > > Robert Dodier <robert.dod...@gmail.com> writes: > > > On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 4:56 PM Raymond Toy <toy.raym...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > >> On the other hand, I see: > >> > >> > (describe (format nil "~r" 8)) > >> > >> "eight" - string > >> dimension: 64 > >> fill pointer: 5 > >> > >> so perhaps using array-dimensions and array-total-size are not the > right things to use in this case. AFAICT, format returns a string and a > string with a fill-pointer is a subtypep of string. > > > > Yeah, that's right, the strings in question have a fill pointer, and > > the fill pointer is valid, so there's no bug. I'm fixing up ALIKE1 to > > handle vectors which have a fill pointer. Sorry for the noise. > > > > best, > > > > Robert > > > > > > > > -- > Camm Maguire c...@maguirefamily.org > ========================================================================== > "The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens." -- Baha'u'llah > -- Ray