[Ecls-list] BUG: incorrect interpretation of compound type specifiers in compiler

[Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll]

On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Eric Marsden <eric.marsden at free.fr> wrote:

> The following illustrates a bug in the handling of compound type
> specifiers in the compiler. The byte-compiler handles them correctly.
>

The problem is not really in the compiler, but in the type checks it emits,
which rely on TYPEP

> (typep (cons 1 (cons 2 3)) '(cons t (cons * t)))

*
Condition of type: SIMPLE-ERROR
* is not a valid type specifier.


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