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

Matthew Mondor mm_lists at pulsar-zone.net
Tue Nov 10 00:23:55 UTC 2009


On Mon, 9 Nov 2009 20:58:37 +0100
Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll <juanjose.garciaripoll at googlemail.com> wrote:

> I know, but the point was that ECL accepted string designators and the
> specification states clearly that FIND-SYMBOL only accepts strings.

I verified and SBCL also fails if a character is provided rather than a
string.  And indeed conforming programs should pass a string to
FIND-SYMBOL as per the hyperspec.  Thanks for fixing this.
-- 
Matt




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