Re: [Maxima-discuss] gcl-2.6.14 released [stable]

[Camm Maguire]

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.

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.dodier@gmail.com> writes:

> On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 4:56 PM Raymond Toy <toy.raymond@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
>
>
>

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Camm Maguire                                        camm@maguirefamily.org
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