Re: ANSI CL support

[Pascal J. B. <pj...@in...>]

Raymond Toy <toy...@gm...> writes:

> A friend pointed this out to me:
>
> (apropos "-ANSI") ->
> *COERCE-FIXNUM-CHAR-ANSI*                  variable
> *FLOATING-POINT-CONTAGION-ANSI*            variable
> *FLOATING-POINT-RATIONAL-CONTAGION-ANSI*    variable
> *LOOP-ANSI*                                variable
> *MERGE-PATHNAMES-ANSI*                     variable
> *PARSE-NAMESTRING-ANSI*                    variable
> *PHASE-ANSI*                               variable
> *PRINT-EMPTY-ARRAYS-ANSI*                  variable
> *PRINT-PATHNAMES-ANSI*                     variable
> *PRINT-SPACE-CHAR-ANSI*                    variable
> *PRINT-UNREADABLE-ANSI*                    variable
> *SEQUENCE-COUNT-ANSI*                      variable
>
> The ANSI CL spec is now almost 20 years old and hasn't changed since
> then. I didn't check to see what all of variables actually do, but
> isn't it time to make these default to T? Or at least some of them?

Always run clisp with -ansi (for the case you also give -norc),
and put (setf custom:*ansi* t) in ~/.clisprc.lisp

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__Pascal Bourguignon__
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