For what it's worth, I've been running macsyma/maxima source
in Allegro CL for years by deleting SLOOP and replacing it
with LOOP.
James Amundson wrote:
>On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 06:50, ole.rohne@cern.ch wrote:
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>>I propose to get rid of the archaic SLOOP macro in favour of ANSI
>>LOOP. We've talked about this in the past, and IIRC the conclusion was
>>"ok, whenever GCL gets ANSI LOOP".
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>It seems that many people are feeling motivated to clean up various
>aspects of the Maxima source these days. I didn't really plan on doing
>all of these things at this time, but that's OK. I would be happy to see
>the end of sloop.
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>>Not counting the trivial sed -e's/sloop/loop/g', the changes weigh in
>>at some 40 lines of code - most of them as trivial as
>>'cddr->#'cddr in order to mute compiler warnings.
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>My biggest (but not only) problem with SLOOP is that I'm not perfectly
>sure what it does. I'll look at your patches. Are you confident you
>understand the differences between LOOP and SLOOP?
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>>With CMUCL, maxima.core compiled with ANSI LOOP seems to pass `make
>>check' all right. I didn't have the energy to persuade maxima to build
>>with GCL in the first place, so I'm hoping for a volunteer.
>>
>>Please contact me about the patches, or tell me if it is ok to post a
>>15k message to the list.
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>15k is OK for the list. Context diffs are preferable.
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>--Jim
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