On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 07:38, Andrej Vodopivec wrote:
> Na 1095389385, 2004-09-17 ob 04:49, je James Amundson napisal(a):
>
> > Please test and then tell me that we are ready to release 5.9.1. (I
> > suppose problems should be reported, too...)
>
> Maxima build with gcl has a strange limit on the number of arguments to
> functions. This causes problems for some commands:
>
> -----
> (%i1) l : makelist(i,i,1,100)$
> (%i2) apply(max, l);
I agree that this is a problem. It isn't a new problem, however. I'm
afraid any possible fixes will have to wait until a later release.
> This example works in other lisps and in beta2 on windows. It does not
> work in rc1 on windows (same error).
The argument length limitation is different in the various lisps, which
is confusing. I think the same problem exists in all GCL versions of
Maxima, however. I can certainly reproduce the problem with beta2 on
Linux.
--Jim