[slime-devel] Re: Bug report: finish-output does not finish with slime!

[Luke Gorrie]

Pascal J.Bourguignon <pjb at informatimago.com> writes:

> CL-USER> (dolist (max '(10 100 1000)) (format t "~2% max = ~D ~%" max) (finish-output) (time (make-grid-dfa 10)))

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> In the first case, the output shows, but actually it's at the end. In
> the second case, since we've got O(n^2) processing time, I'm still
> waiting the first line!  

Is the problem that FINISH-OUTPUT doesn't make the output visible, and
you have to wait until the evaluation finishes? Which Lisp are you
using?

-Luke