Re: ANSI CL support

Raymond Toy <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.clisp.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>>>>> "Pascal" == Pascal J Bourguignon <[email protected]> writes:

    Pascal> Raymond Toy <[email protected]> writes:
    >> A friend pointed this out to me:
    >> 
    >> (apropos "-ANSI") ->
    >> *COERCE-FIXNUM-CHAR-ANSI*                  variable
    >> *FLOATING-POINT-CONTAGION-ANSI*            variable
    >> *FLOATING-POINT-RATIONAL-CONTAGION-ANSI*    variable
    >> *LOOP-ANSI*                                variable
    >> *MERGE-PATHNAMES-ANSI*                     variable
    >> *PARSE-NAMESTRING-ANSI*                    variable
    >> *PHASE-ANSI*                               variable
    >> *PRINT-EMPTY-ARRAYS-ANSI*                  variable
    >> *PRINT-PATHNAMES-ANSI*                     variable
    >> *PRINT-SPACE-CHAR-ANSI*                    variable
    >> *PRINT-UNREADABLE-ANSI*                    variable
    >> *SEQUENCE-COUNT-ANSI*                      variable
    >> 
    >> The ANSI CL spec is now almost 20 years old and hasn't changed since
    >> then. I didn't check to see what all of variables actually do, but
    >> isn't it time to make these default to T? Or at least some of them?

    Pascal> Always run clisp with -ansi (for the case you also give -norc),
    Pascal> and put (setf custom:*ansi* t) in ~/.clisprc.lisp

Yes, my friend mentioned that to me as well. But that doesn't explain
why this is not the default. Does anyone really want a Common Lisp
implementation that isn't?

Ray



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