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FIled a report. They say they've fixed it in the CVS tree (that was fast!). I feel like a good citizen .

Siggy

Okay, I think I'm going to use the equal designator. I'd tried it before and found that it doesn't descend into structs, but forgot to try it with lists (which is funny, 'cuz I was using lists at first). I think it'll actually be easier this way, since I don't want it to actually descend deep into m...

Ah, okay. Didn't know it had garbage collection, though that explains a lot.

I'll look into the designator and SXHASH. May be what I need.

Thanks for the pointers! Er. No pun intended. Honest!

Siggy

I'm rewriting an algorithm in CL that was originally designed in C. It involves running functions on the addresses of the children of binary tree nodes to generate hash keys. I've got control over the hashing function via Ingvar Mattson's generic hash table implementation. The problem now is how to ...

The Hyperspec states that "an implementation is permitted to discard documentation strings at any time for implementation-defined reasons." I guess Clisp chooses to discard documentations to keep the memory consumption low, since using low memory is one of Clisp's main advantage. You're r...

Er, yeah, the syntax I'm using is: (defstruct INF_node "A boolean expression in If-then-else Normal Form (INF).\ i.e. the nodes for our (R)OBDD." (var nil) ; The input variable this statement is for (integer from 1 to n) (low nil) ; Expression or terminal to follow if var's value is 0 (hig...

This isn't too big a deal -- but is it just me or is the documentation string functionality for structs broken in clisp? For example, in some of my code SBCL gives: * (documentation 'INF_node 'structure) "A boolean expression in If-then-else Normal Form (INF). i.e. the nodes for our (R)OBDD.&qu...

Thanks for the informative reply. What is going on is that UNIXoid systems require each terminating process to return an exit code . Gotcha. Right after I posted I wondered if that's what was going on -- but I ran off to lunch before having a chance to fix it. Solved now. Do note that cores saved by...

Another newb question, this time in sbcl. Here's my "hello.lisp": (defun main() (print "hello, world!")) And here's what I run in sbcl: (load "hello.lisp") (sb-ext:save-lisp-and-die "my_binary" :executable t :toplevel 'main) And here's my result at the shell: ...

As for debugging, please see the Clisp documentation , in particular the section on REPL commands . Many thanks. I found the docs, but Google had taken me to how to do a straight-up trace, no a back trace, on the next page :-P. Oh yeah. You can type "help" and sometimes actually find some...