[Gcl-devel] Re: extended-char and thank you

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings, and thanks!  Should be done now.

Take care,

Robert Boyer <address@hidden> writes:

> >(declaim (extended-char foo10)) !!!  not quite fixed yet?
> 
>    Inconsistent type declaration was found for the variable FOO10.
> 
> > Perhaps the solution to some issues of this sort lies in not exporting
> > the symbol from the package
> 
> Amen.  Not perhaps, but definitely.  ANSI says that precisely 978
> symbols are external to package CL.  This is one of Dietz's tests that
> GCL currently fails.
> 
> > Did you know that Paul Dietz has written a compiler torture tester?
> 
> No I didn't.  How great.  Is that how he came up with some of his ANSI
> tests?
> 
> > How many other issues of the above sort still remain?
> 
> None that I know of.  But I'll keep trying to find them as time permits.
> 
> The rest of this message is a thank you litany.
> 
> > (export (quote (0 "cdifference(#0,#1)")))
> Thank you!
> > (unexport '(1 2))
> Thank you!
> > (sort '(a b) 'foo)
> Thank you.
> > (standard-instance-access 5465728 '(pcl::value))
> Thank you.
> >  (extract-specializer-names ...)
> Thank you.
> > (restart-bind '((t)))
> Thank you.
> > (extract-lambda-list ...)
> Thank you.
> > (declaim (boolean foo))
> Thank you!
> > Also bignum, nil, base-char, base-string, simple-base-string.
> Thank you!
> >(deftype foo () 'boolean); (declaim (foo x))
> Thank you!
> 
> Thanks so very much!
> 
> Bob
> 
> 
> 
> 

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Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
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