[Gcl-devel] Re: sort function

[Camm Maguire]

The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
that has been posted to comp.lang.lisp as well.

Greetings!  I cannot reprodice this under current stable GCL on unix:

$ gcl
GCL (GNU Common Lisp)  (2.6.1) Wed Dec 31 15:36:01 UTC 2003
Licensed under GNU Library General Public License
Dedicated to the memory of W. Schelter

Use (help) to get some basic information on how to use GCL.

>(sort '((9 a) (3 b) (4 c)) #'(lambda (x y) (< (car x) (car y))))

((3 B) (4 C) (9 A))


Please post your version and where you got it, together with input and
output to address@hidden if problems persist.  It is possible this
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case, kindly forward it there for me.

Take care,


On Fri, 2 Jan 2004 14:49:31 -0000, Steve Ellis wrote:
> Hi again 
> thanks for the help, i understand it all alot better now. The only thing now
> thats wrong is that the example Adam gave to sort the list works perfectly
> in lispworks on windows but when i try it in GCL under unix i get an error
> saying lambda is undefined.

[Gemini:dseaman] $ clisp -q

[1]> (sort '((9 a) (3 b) (4 c)) #'(lambda (x y) (< (car x) (car y))))
((3 B) (4 C) (9 A))
[2]> 



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