[Ecls-list] bug in LOAD

[Robert Dodier]

Hi,

I am working with ECL as built from CVS 2008-04-22,
gcc 3.3.2, running on Fedora 1. (Yes, it is ancient. Oh well.)

I get the following error. Clisp, SBCL, GCL, and CMUCL are all happy with FOO.

>(defun foo (x) (load (concatenate 'string "/tmp/" x)))
FOO
> (foo "foo1.lisp")
;;; Loading "/tmp/foo1.lisp"
"/tmp/foo1.lisp" is not of type STREAM.
Broken at EVAL.No restarts available.
Broken at FOO.

However this function BAR is OK.

>> (defun bar (x) (load x))
BAR
>> (bar "/tmp/foo1.lisp")
;;; Loading "/tmp/foo1.lisp"
HELLO
"/tmp/foo1.lisp"

Content of /tmp/foo1.lisp:

(format t "HELLO~%")

I wonder what's going on here.
Thanks for your help.

Robert Dodier