Greetings!
Just a note -- the ANSI spec specifies that the maximum number of args
can be no smaller than 50. If one wants to use args instead of lists,
perhaps this value could be used as a dividing point between the too
-- guaranteed to be portable to all compliant systems.
Take care,
James Amundson <amundson@users.sourceforge.net> writes:
> 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
>
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