Re: [Sbcl-devel] unusual behavior in DESCRIBE from current CVS

[William H. N. <wil...@ai...>]

On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 12:59:26PM -0500, Nathan Froyd wrote:
> If I execute the following code:                                      
>                                                                       
> (do-external-symbols (s (find-package 'sb-ext))                       
>   (describe s))                                                       
>                                                                       
> I get lots of output, as expected, but the descriptions are indented  
> several spaces over (more than 10 or 15, in some cases).  Calling     
> DESCRIBE individually on each one of the symbols produces perfectly   
> normal output.                                                        
>
> CMUCL behaves as expected (no spaces).                                
>                                                                       
> Any speculation on why this might occur?                              

No.. I can replicate the problem, but it's not immediately obvious why
it would occur. It's likely to be a simple problem, and I should be
able to look into it sometime in the next week or so.

Thanks for pointing it out.

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