[Axiom-developer] Re: concatenate and bit-vector

[Stephen Wilson]

Gabriel Dos Reis <address@hidden> writes:

> On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, Stephen Wilson wrote:
> 
> | Gabriel Dos Reis <address@hidden> writes:
> | 
> | > On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, Stephen Wilson wrote:
> | > 
> | > | Am I missing something?
> | > 
> | > Did you try
> | > 
> | >    (concatenate 'string "foo" 'bar)
> | > 
> | > in SBCL, for example?
> | 
> | I dont have to. 'bar is not a sequence. 
> 
> Good.

I understand that concat is a bit of a misnomer in CL terms since

  (concatenate 'string "FOO-" 'bar)

fails.  Of course:

  (concat "FOO-" 'bar)

works, under both #+AKCL and #-AKCL varients.  They do not seem
inconsistant to me, nor buggy. Could you please explain what the
problem is?


Steve