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

[Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll]

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 1:30 PM, Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll
<juanjose.garciaripoll at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 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

Fixed in CVS. Causes one test from the test suite to fail, but I think
it is wrong, for it expects characters as valid arguments to
FIND-SYMBOL.

Juanjo

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