[Ecls-list] Problem compiling cl-colors

[Tobias C. Rittweiler]

Daniel Herring writes:

> Here's the error that halted compilation.  Many lisps (e.g. sbcl) are
> accepting of malformed type declarations.  ECL is stricter on this
> point; according to ANSI, TYPE can be omitted for simple types but not
> for compound types.  Change the above to (DECLARE (type (REAL 0 1)
> ALPHA)), and compilation should succeed.

I beg to differ. I think it's written to allow for compound types. It's
also what the relevant X3J13 Issue says. Clozure CCL recently changed to
accept compound type specifiers as declaration identifiers, too. See:

  http://trac.clozure.com/openmcl/ticket/465

  -T.