Only simple circular lists seem to work properly.
'(a b . (c d e .))
is equivalent to
'(a b c d e c d e ...)
: (de X . (a b .))
-> X
: X
-> (a b .)
: (de X . (a . (b c .)))
# X redefined
-> X
: (cdr X)
-> (b c .)
: X
-> (a b c b c b c b c b c b c b c b c b c b c b c b c b c b c b c b c
b c b c b c b c b c b c b c b c b c
b c b c b c b c b c b c b c b c b c b c b c b c b c b c b c b c b c b
c b c b c b c b c b c b c b c b c b
c b c b c b c b c b c b c b c b c b c b c b c b c
and so on forever.
John
On 10 Apr 2008, at 3:35 AM, Jon Kleiser wrote:
Hi Alex,
After you made me aware of the circular list in lib/form.l, I
changed my 'ifwarn' function to skip circular lists by putting in
the (nT (length Prg)) test, like this:
(de ifwarn (Prg)
(when (and (lst? Prg) (nT (length Prg)))
(when (and (= (car Prg) 'if) (<> (length Prg) 4))
(println Prg) )
(mapcar ifwarn Prg)
NIL) )
However, this fix may not be the ultimate, because in lib/misc.l
there's a tougher problem, that can be illustrated by this ...
(length '(de *Day . (Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun .)))
.. which I'm not able to abort with Ctrl-C or Ctrl-D. Ctrl-Z does it.
Why does 'length' have such problems here?
/Jon
