Re: broken calc on 21.2.50

[Tak Ota]

Sat, 09 Feb 2002 22:05:14 +0100: address@hidden (Pavel Janík) wrote:

>    From: Tak Ota <address@hidden>
>    Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2002 22:59:46 -0800 (PST)
> 
>    > In the latest CVS version (21.2.50) the calc package is broken.
>    > 
>    > M-x calc
>    > 
>    > ' a x ^ 2 + b x + c = 0 RET a S x RET
>    > 
>    > fails to solve the equation but produces an error message "Variable is
>    > void: 'while".
> 
> It works for me. Can you reproduce that with emacs -q?

That is strange.  Yes emacs -q --no-site-file still shows exactly the
same result.

> Can you (set debug-on-error-t) before that error?

It does not help in this case.  I tried it in vain even before you
asked.  The error is reported from calc package and not from the emacs
lisp interpreter.  I believe the cause of the error is determined by
the following location.

calc.el:2363:              (calc-record-why "*Variable is void" (nth 1 err)))))

I suppose the issue is in the calc package however the following is
my environment which may not be the majority here.

-Tak

In GNU Emacs 21.2.50.1 (i386-msvc-nt5.0.2195)
 of 2002-02-09 on TAK_4100
configured using `configure --with-msvc (12.00)'
Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: ENU
  locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t