[Gcl-devel] Re: A possible bug in GCL ANSI-TESTS

[Pascal J . Bourguignon]

Paul F. Dietz writes:
> Yuji Minejima wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I think I've found a bug in ANSI testsuite which is distributed with GNU 
> > Common Lisp 2.6.5.
> > 
> > In loop.11.8,
> > (deftest loop.11.8
> >   (loop repeat 3 for i in '(a b c d e) collect i)
> >   (a b c))
> > I think this loop form is invalid.
> > According to the standard's loop description, a repeat-clause is a 
> > main-clause, wheareas a for-as-clause is a variable-clause and the 
> > standard's BNF form indicates all variable-clauses should come before 
> > main-clauses.
> > 
> > So I think a proper substitution would be
> > (loop for i in '(a b c d e) repeat 3 collect i)
> 
> I believe you're right, so I'lll remove the test.

The test was ok, the test results were not: they should indicate the
syntax error!

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