I apologize in advance for not knowing exactly what the issue is since I've been writing lisp code for a month now. Anyways David S. Touretzky's Common Lisp: A gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation is the book i'm working with (which is very good). I've included what I believe to be the pertenent facts about my setup in order to help anyone diagnose the issue. First up is the lisp session where the boog appeared.
CMU Common Lisp CVS 19c 19c-release + minimal debian patches (19C), running on navi With core: /usr/lib/cmucl/lisp.core Dumped on: Tue, 2005-12-13 19:26:30-08:00 on navi For support see http://www.cons.org/cmucl/support.html Send bug reports to http://bugs.gentoo.org Type (help) for help or (quit) to exit. Loaded subsystems: Python 1.1, target Intel x86 CLOS based on Gerd's PCL 2004/04/14 03:32:47 * (setf a 100) Warning: Declaring A special. 100 * (defun g (b) (list a b)) G * (defun f (a) (list a (g (+ a 1)))) F * (f 3) (3 (3 4)) * -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE: (3 (100 4)) is what what I was "taught" _should_ return. That is according to David S. Touretzky's Common Lisp: A gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation. Also (3 (100 4)) is returned in clisp-2.34-r1, and sbcl-0.9.7 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- System Information, ala Gentoo emerge info... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:15 AM Tue Dec 27]-[lisp] # emerge info Portage 2.0.51.22-r3 (!/usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.6-r0, 2.6.14-nekrohitler5 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.14-nekrohitler5 i686 Pentium III (Coppermine) Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10, 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -mtune=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/cursors/xorg-x11/default /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -mtune=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -fvisibility-inlines-hidden" DISTDIR="/usr/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig buildpkg candy ccache distlocks fixpackages notitles sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ ftp://cs.ubishops.ca/pub/gentoo ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo ftp://csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/gentoo/ ftp://gentoo.mirrored.ca/"; LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--sort-common -s" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/usr/build/tmp" PORTDIR="/other/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/overlays/bmg-main /usr/local/overlays/voidengineer" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X aalib alsa apm audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cairo cdb cdr crypt cscope curl dbus directfb dts emboss encode examples exif expat fam fbcon flac foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif gimpprint glut gmp gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 idn imagemagick imlib imlib2 ipv6 jack java jpeg lcms libcaca libg++ libwww mad maildir matroska mikmod mime mmx mng motif mozilla mozsvg mp3 mpeg mplayer ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg oggvorbis openal opengl pam pcre pdf pdflib perl png python quicktime readline ruby sdl slang smime spell sqlite sse ssl svga tcpd tetex theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode userlocales vorbis win32codecs wmf xine xml xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS Thanks Stephen Horner
