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

[Erik Huelsmann]

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 8:02 PM, Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll
<juanjose.garciaripoll at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Without knowing anything about the test: a single character is a
string designator too, according to the spec...

Bye,

Erik