[Gcl-devel] Re: gentemp bug (and fix, maybe)

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings!  Should be done now.

Take care,

Robert Boyer <address@hidden> writes:

> I believe that one of the ANSI tests detects the fact that the (deprecated)
> function GENTEMP is not accepting a package designator.  I think below is a
> fix, and the justifying ANSI text, for easy of reference.
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> In symbol.d
> 
> after:        check_type_string(&prefix);
> 
> put
>         if (type_of(pack)!=t_package) 
>            {object tem; 
>             tem=find_package(pack);
>             if (tem==Cnil) FEerror("No package named ~a exists",1,pack); 
>             pack=tem;}
> 
> and delete or comment out:
> 
> /*    
>         check_type_package(&pack);
> */
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> %%% ========== GENTEMP
> \begincom{gentemp} Function
> 
> Syntax::
> 
> \DefunWithValues gentemp {&optional prefix package} {new-symbol}
> 
> Arguments and Values::
> 
> prefix---a string.
>  \Default{"T"}
> 
> package---a package designator.
>  \Default{the current package}
> 
> 
> 
> 

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Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
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