[Ilisp-devel] Old patches (SPECIAL-FORM-P and CMU CL arglist)

[Paolo A. <am...@mc...>]

I have started reviewing a few old patches submitted via the SourceForge
patch manager. First of all, I apologize for taking so long, but I was not
aware that users were using the patch manager besides the mailing list.
I'll check the project site more often.

The first patch, submitted by Reini Urban, is #401855:


http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=401855&group_id=3957&atid=303957

It deals with replacing `special-form-p' with `special-operator-p' in
cl-ilisp.lisp as per ANSI CL issue SPECIAL-FORM-P-MISNOMER. This works with
recent Common Lisp implementations, but may break old ones.

Since old Lisp implementations are still in use, I suggest that we leave
the code as is as long as we support them. cl-ilisp.lisp uses
`special-form-p' when available.

As for patch #450409 by Friedrich:


http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=450409&group_id=3957&atid=303957

I think the issue has already been addressed. Both patches can be
considered closed.


Paolo
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