[Ecls-list] FIND-SYMBOL allows both SYMBOL and STRING

Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll juanjose.garciaripoll at googlemail.com
Mon Nov 9 12:30:31 UTC 2009


On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Matthew Mondor <mm_lists at pulsar-zone.net> wrote:
> I noticed that on ECL, FIND-SYMBOL allows symbols to be passed when the
> HyperSpec shows that the expected argument for the symbol to look for
> is a string.  The HyperSpec however lists no exceptional situations,
> but SBCL will assert that the argument is not a string.

There is nothing planned about this. Probably we are using a check for
string designator instead of a check for string. The former is less
strict than the latter. I take note

Juanjo

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