mockmma in GCL-- was Re: [Maxima] status of gamalg

1. Yes, it should run interpreted in Lisp.
 1a. There is some info (c. 1999) on running in AKCL,
a predecessor to GCL, in
 http:/www.cs.berkeley/edu/~fateman/mma1.6/davorpatch/mmapatch
2.  after loading it with :ld init
 you should be in the mockmma package, and
type (tl)
to start up the top level.
to return to lisp, type Exit
<return>

There is an alternative to :ld init, namely :ld init2  which
may work better (basically it is the same except for loading ucons1 instead
of ucons, a utility for "unique consing".  At least that is what
I recall).

The handling of upper/lower case is one contributor to trouble
in different CL. Also Allegro has some non-standard extensions
for hash table functions. Also the handling of errors may be
different.
Otherwise the code SHOULD work.

If you just want the read/parse/return,  try what you did, but type 
something after it. e.g.

 (mma::p)
x+y                    <<I typed this
(mma::Plus x y)


If you just hit <return> 2 times, you'll indeed get
mma:Null
 

RJF





Camm Maguire wrote:

>Greetings!
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>Just managed to compile mma 1.6 for ANSI GCL, using init2 and one or
>two small edits.  Can it be run interpreted?  (mma::p) just retuns
>NULL.  How do I get the new toplevel?
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