Re: [Gcl-devel] Calling for top ten ANSI issues ...

[Paul F. Dietz]

Camm Maguire wrote:

> > > [3.] As in the earlier email, the problem is with (float
> > > most-positive-double-float 1.0s0), and I'm not sure what is supposed
> > > to be returned here.  But apart from this, should we be printing Nans
> > > and Infs?  Is there an ANSI format for these?
> >
> > Change committed which makes this go away.
>
>
> Thanks!  But as to the question regarding nans and infs?

Those are beyond the scope of the standard, I think, unless
the ieee fp standard specifies some printing syntax.


> OK, I've got the loop errors down to about 8  (haven't committed yet).
>
> Remaining are of form:
> Form: (LOOP
>         CL-TEST::FOR
>         CL-TEST::I
>         CL-TEST::IN
>         '(4 8 9 CL-TEST::A 13)
>         WHEN
>         (EQ CL-TEST::I 'CL-TEST::A)
>         RETURN
>         :GOOD
>         CL-TEST::WHILE
>         (< CL-TEST::I 12)
>         CL-TEST::COLLECT
>         CL-TEST::I)
[...]
> Is this reordering a known failure with the existing cmucl loop macro?

Yes, this bug came up not very long ago on c.l.l, so I added a test
to the test suite.

        Paul