Re: new ansi test failures: array printing

[Sam S. <sd...@gn...>]

> * Bruno Haible <oe...@py...t> [2004-05-11 18:03:04 +0200]:
>
> Sam wrote:
>> this should be fixed by the appended patch
>
> Please make this dependent on a new *ANSI* facet, say *PRINT-EMPTY-ARRAYS-ANSI*.
> It is unacceptable that the array dimensions cannot be inferred from the
> output in default mode.
>
>> except that
>>      (MAKE-ARRAY '(0 1))
>> and
>>      (MAKE-ARRAY '(0 0))
>> are then printed identically which is REALLY disgusting.
>
> Yes, because it's so disgusting we cannot make it the default behaviour.

I kind of hoped that Paul misinterpreted the standard here.
This is so obviously wrong...

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