Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: crummy lisps

2005-08-09 Thread jeff
e type-error if index is not a valid sequence index for sequence. But for aref, it says Exceptional Situations: None. :( It's odd that nothing is said, so I'm wondering whether there's something somewhere else that somehow implies that some kind of checking (is that enough "some"s?) is done in safe code. -- Jeff ___ Gcl-devel mailing list Gcl-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gcl-devel

Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: Performance complaint from a user

2005-08-29 Thread jeff
s both the C code and the assembly language code. -- Jeff ___ Gcl-devel mailing list Gcl-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gcl-devel

Re: [Gcl-devel] Performance complaint from a user

2005-08-29 Thread jeff
n compile that and have it called when the file is loaded. So they don't need any "interesting" new capabilities. -- Jeff ___ Gcl-devel mailing list Gcl-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gcl-devel

Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: Performance complaint from a user

2005-08-30 Thread jeff
e code. > > Ah, so it seems. That's surprising. I think the reason is that, by working that way, it can show you the assembly code by running the GCL compiler and then running the C compiler -- two things that must exist anyway. So it avoids nee

Re: [Gcl-devel] Odd idea...

2005-10-26 Thread jeff
TW that an implementation is an instance of the spec. -- Jeff ___ Gcl-devel mailing list Gcl-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gcl-devel

Re: [Gcl-devel] Odd idea...

2005-10-26 Thread jeff
tection because it so closely follows the original. But that doesn't mean someone else can't tell the same story in a different way. Indeed, a second translation of the same original doesn't need permission from the copyright owner of the first tra

[Gcl-devel] Problem making 2.6.7 on Linux

2006-04-05 Thread jeff
ll-command "INSTALL_LIB_DIR=$GCLDIR" "prefix=$GCLDIR" "BINDIR=$MGCLDIR/unixport" make[1]: Entering directory `/amd/nfs/phoenix/disk/ptn005/jeff-home/new/gcl/gcl-2.6.7' rm -f /bin/gcl (echo '#!/bin/sh' ; \ echo exec /unixport/ \\ ; \ echo ' -dir&

Re: [Gcl-devel] Problem making 2.6.7 on Linux

2006-04-11 Thread jeff
make output: rm -f bin/gcl xbin/gcl MGCLDIR=`echo | sed -e 'sX^\([a-z]\):X/\1Xg'` ; \ GCLDIR=`echo ` ; \ make install-command "INSTALL_LIB_DIR=$GCLDIR" "prefix=$GCLDIR" "BINDIR=$MGCLDIR/unixport" make[1]: Entering directory `/amd/nfs/phoenix/disk/ptn005/

Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: tertium non datur: ANSI help

2006-04-13 Thread jeff
Lisp pitfalls" written years ago, though for some reason my own copy isn't the ref google produced. Anyway see http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/~jeff/lisp/cl-pitfalls the section on "Function vs eq". I said there that A FUNCTION special form may construct a new function object eac

[Gcl-devel] I (Still) need help getting GCL to make in Linux

2006-06-20 Thread jeff
-command "INSTALL_LIB_DIR=$GCLDIR" "prefix=$GCLDIR" "BINDIR=$MGCLDIR/unixport" make[1]: Entering directory `/amd/nfs/phoenix/disk/ptn005/jeff-home/new/gcl/gcl-2.6.7' rm -f /bin/gcl (echo '#!/bin/sh' ; \ echo exec /unixport/ \\ ; \ echo ' -dir'

Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: I (Still) need help getting GCL to make in Linux

2006-06-21 Thread jeff
that command wants me to be root, and as I mentioned in my message I can't do anything as root. :( I need to be able to just type ./configure make -- Jeff ___ Gcl-devel mailing list Gcl-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gcl-devel

[Gcl-devel] GCL for Macs?

2007-01-24 Thread jeff
Is there a current GCL for macs? -- Jeff ___ Gcl-devel mailing list Gcl-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gcl-devel

[Gcl-devel] Can't make gcl 2.6.7 on macos 10.4.8

2007-01-27 Thread jeff
: libintl.h (gettext) not found -- Jeff ___ Gcl-devel mailing list Gcl-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gcl-devel

Re: [Gcl-devel] Can't make gcl 2.6.7 on macos 10.4.8

2007-01-27 Thread jeff
xt Thanks for the reply! I've tried --disable-gettext now, but it didn't help. to configure, but it may be simpler to get the cvs sources. How do I do that? I couldn't find any sufficiently obvious way at http://www.gnu.org/software/gcl/ -- Jeff _

[Gcl-devel] difficulties with, with-standard-io and defpackage

2007-02-17 Thread Jeff
Hi, I recently started using gcl to learn common lisp, but ran into a problem or two. If I'm not mistaken, with-standard-io does not appear to be in the 2.6.7 release, I get the message "Error: The function WITH-STANDARD-IO is undefined". I initially tried the latest cvs, but that wouldn't buil

Re: [Gcl-devel] difficulties with, with-standard-io and defpackage

2007-02-18 Thread Jeff
sorry, yes I do mean WITH-STANDARD-IO-SYNTAX. On 2/18/07, Paul F. Dietz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Do you mean WITH-STANDARD-IO-SYNTAX? WITH-STANDARD-IO is not in the standard. Pail Jeff wrote: > Hi, > > I recently started using gcl to learn common lisp, but ran into a &

Re: [Gcl-devel] difficulties with, with-standard-io and defpackage

2007-03-03 Thread Jeff
rror: UNDEFINED-FUNCTION :NAME DEFPACKAGE NIL Fast links are on: do (si::use-fast-links nil) for debugging Signalled by EVAL. UNDEFINED-FUNCTION :NAME DEFPACKAGE NIL Broken at EVAL. Type :H for Help. (quit) $ Thanks On 2/18/07, Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Gcl-devel] difficulties with, with-standard-io and defpackage

2007-03-06 Thread Jeff
Thank you for your reply, When running make after ./configure --with-ansi the following is printed to stderr, building with gcc 4.1.1-13ubuntu5 Do I need to use an older version of gcc or something else? gcl_cmpif.c: In function 'LI16': gcl_cmpif.c:1851: warning: 'V380' may be used uninitialize

[Gcl-devel] Minor? problem making gcl-2.6.8pre on a Mac

2008-01-13 Thread jeff
[dwdoc.pdf] Error 127 make: *** [unixport/saved_gcl] Error 2 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - I ended up with no "gcl" script in "bin", and no unixport/saved_gcl, though there is a unixport/saved_pre_gcl. -- Jeff ___ Gcl-devel mailing list Gcl-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gcl-devel

[Gcl-devel] Two questions about 2.6.8pre ANSI

2008-01-14 Thread jeff
lf, so having solid versions of those features would be nice. -- Jeff ___ Gcl-devel mailing list Gcl-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gcl-devel

Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: Minor? problem making gcl-2.6.8pre on a Mac

2008-01-16 Thread jeff
bin/gcl. However, I then get some new errors, though presumably still minor ones: /bin/sh: line 1: tex: command not found and, later: .../gcl-2.6.8pre/info/gcl-tk/index.html: Is a directory -- Jeff ___ Gcl-devel mailing list Gcl-devel@gnu.org ht

[Gcl-devel] Problem compiling embedded C code

2008-02-08 Thread jeff
result->c.c_cdr = make_fixnum(pid != -1 ? status : errno); % return(vs_pop); % } ) (defentry wait () (object zwait)) -- Jeff ___ Gcl-devel mailing list Gcl-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gcl-devel