limitation on size of read-in matrix, was: Re: GCL limitation

Hello all,

If it's not clear to readers, Andrej is not trying to write
a clumsy function with more than 64 arguments.  Instead he 
is running into trouble with numericalio (as he stated).

Numericalio.lisp constructs a matrix like this:

 (defun $read_matrix (file-name &optional sep-ch-flag)
  `(($matrix) ,@(cdr ($read_nested_list file-name sep-ch-flag))))

I wrote that, but since my grasp of Lisp is fairly primitive,
I must have adapted it from elsewhere. (Perhaps something
Barton Willis wrote?) 

As Maximists know, the matrix function takes a list of rows
as its arguments, e.g. M: matrix ([1,2], [3,4]);
So, it appears, one must supply 65 or more arguments to make
a matrix with that 65 or more rows. This is the essence of
the problem, I believe.

I don't yet have an answer for Andrej, but at this point
I hope the nature of the problem is clearer.

Regards to all, 
Robert Dodier


		
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