Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: metalex change

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, Stephen Wilson wrote:

| Gabriel Dos Reis <address@hidden> writes:
| > Also, if the function expects strings, we should give it a string.
| 
| Although not documented as such, it is likely that
| system:string-concatenate is designed to take string designators as
| arguments instead of `just' strings.  This is a fairly common Lisp
| idiom, so I do not see a problem.  Perhaps a close look at the gcl
| code and a patch against the documentation in si-defs.texi is in
| order.

I'm using SBCL to type check the code.  But that should not matter much.

We have two versions, one that uses GCL's stuff, and one that uses the
standard concatenate with type 'string.  We should write codes that compile
with either version.

-- Gaby