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

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, Stephen Wilson wrote:

| 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?

I just sent a message -- before receiving this one.

The orignal bug canbe fixed either way:

    (test 'Rule1)
  
or

    (test "RULE1")


But don't ask me to give a test case that makes the system crash.  The
ogirinal code just could not make any sense.


-- Gaby