[Ecls-list] [Maxima] writefile does not write

[Oliver Kullmann]

I definitely don't know much (at all) about the Lisp standard,
but the only information I could find which sounds like a standard is

http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/f_dribbl.htm

and there it says

Either binds *standard-input* and *standard-output* or takes other appropriate action, so as to send a record of the input/output interaction to a file named by pathname. dribble is intended to create a readable record of an interactive session.

This is vagues, but it says "takes appropriate action", which should
be something.

Oliver

On Sat, Nov 05, 2011 at 11:05:10AM -0600, Robert Dodier wrote:
> On 11/5/11, Raymond Toy <toy.raymond at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Sounds like a bug in ecl.  I did a very quick test with writefile using
> > maxima and cmucl.  The output file is not empty.
> 
> I just tried (dribble "/tmp/foo.log") in ECL 11.1.1 (Ubuntu) and
> it puts nothing into the file. (Maxima writefile punts to dribble iirc.)
> 
> Actually iirc that behavior is conformant with the CL spec,
> which doesn't require that DRIBBLE do anything at all iirc.
> Be that as it may, it would certainly be useful if it did something.
> 
> best
>