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#396 DESCRIBE: confusing spacing

lisp error
closed-fixed
clisp (524)
5
2006-12-27
2006-12-26
No

I find the coagulating of spaces that FILL-STREAM
performs really confusing:
[4]> (describe "foo bar")[4 spaces]
"foo bar"[1space] is a simple 1 dimensional array
(vector) of CHARACTERs, of size 10
(a ISO-8859-1 string).
When I first saw this, I wondered how CLISP managed to
display two different strings. Was the heap
corrupted? How could that happen?

Discussion

  • Sam Steingold

    Sam Steingold - 2006-12-27
    • status: open --> closed-fixed
     
  • Sam Steingold

    Sam Steingold - 2006-12-27

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    thank you for your bug report.
    the bug has been fixed in the CVS tree.
    you can either wait for the next release (recommended)
    or check out the current CVS tree (see http://clisp.cons.org\)
    and build CLISP from the sources (be advised that between
    releases the CVS tree is very unstable and may not even build
    on your platform).

     

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