[cl-debian] Bug#390205: cl-statistics + SBCL: compiles but still throws an error

[Peter Van Eynde]

On Friday 29 September 2006 21:53, Kevin L wrote:
> Package: cl-statistics
> 
> This is strange:  cl-statistics compiles fine in CMUCL and *appears* to 
> compile fine in SBCL, but SBCL still throws an error.

From the log, and from experience, I guess that the error is 'compile-file 
warned while'. This is a pretty irritating issue but the sbcl people claim it 
is a feature, not a bug :-(.

This is because the warnings are of possibly broken code (they are not 
STYLE-WARNINGS):

> ; compiling (DEFPACKAGE :STATISTICS ...);
> ; caught WARNING:
> ;   STATISTICS also exports the following symbols:
> ;     (FISHER-Z-TRANSFORM NORMAL-MEAN-CI-ON-SEQUENCE 
> FALSE-DISCOVERY-CORRECTION)
> ;   See also:
> ;     The ANSI Standard, Macro DEFPACKAGE

instead of :
> 
> ; compiling (DECLAIM (OPTIMIZE # ...))
> ; compiling (IN-PACKAGE :STATISTICS)
> ; compiling (DEFMACRO TEST-VARIABLES ...); in: LAMBDA NIL
> ;     (LET* ((STATISTICS::DUMMY (CDR #:WHOLE60)))
> ;     (BLOCK STATISTICS:TEST-VARIABLES))
> ;
> ; caught STYLE-WARNING:
> ;   The variable DUMMY is defined but never used.
> 

So actually there is a bug in cl-statistics :-S

Groetjes, Peter

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