Re: Bug#182116: ILISP broken with readtable inverted

   From: "Adam Warner" <[email protected]>
   Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 20:08:09 +1300

   Hi Kevin,

   > Adam Warner submitted the following bug. I don't know what would be
   > required to fix it.

   Thanks Kevin. I'm stumped. The ILISP code appears to use the correct case.
   The only place that seems to mention common-lisp-user is
   /usr/share/emacs21/site-lisp/ilisp/ilisp-cl.el where it's quoted as 
   :common-lisp-user. 

Yes, that's from the patch Will Deakin put in last fall to find a
default package in case-sensitive dialects.

   But this of course is Emacs code. Could there be some
   evil Emacs Lisp/ANSI Common Lisp interaction going on here?

   Regards,
   Adam

I'm not familiar with all of this case-mangling stuff, since I don't use
it myself, but it seems to me that the returned package name,
"COMMON-LISP-USER", is correct.  The problem seems to be that
ilisp::ilisp-symbol-name (in the Lisp), drops the ball, as it doesn't
know about :invert case.  The immediate fix should be straightforward,
but I'm afraid I don't have any time to spare right now . . .

   But the ilisp code is full of places that assume more conventional
case modes.  For example, some places use (string-match "^nil$" result)
to work around this, but many do not.  So I'm sure this is only the tip
of the caseberg, as it were.

					-- Bob Rogers
					   http://rgrjr.dyndns.org/


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