#4086 /* comment */ :lisp does not work

[Andrii Sokolov]

It might be the case that you have something like

/* And now for something completely different: */
:lisp (print "BOOOM!!!")

in a .mac file you then want to batch. But, this produces

incorrect syntax: : is not a prefix operator
:l
^

and might make you think :lisp cannot be used in a file processed by batch.

It would be nice to have that fixed, or at least mentioned in the docs that you cannot use :lisp after a comment.

[Wolfgang Dautermann]

(Currently) one can not use :lisp after anything, not even a single space character. :lispmust be at the beginning of the line.
For me that would be okay, if it would be documented.

[Wolfgang Dautermann]

I mentioned that now in the documentation, see commit: [8816f0]

[Kris Katterjohn]

The :lisp construct has several other known limitations as well:

https://sourceforge.net/p/maxima/mailman/message/37128965/

If you're interested, the lisp_eval described in that post is now in Maxima under the name eval_string_lisp.