Some random thoughts on future features

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ze=3D2><DIV>Mike Thomas asked me to forward this message; he has some<BR>em=
ail problems.</DIV><DIV>&nbsp;</DIV><BR><DIV>Barton<BR><DIV><BR></DIV><FONT=
 color=3D#990099>-----Forwarded by Barton Willis/MATH/UNK/UNEBR on 11/20/20=
04 08:39AM -----<BR><BR></FONT>To: Barton Willis &lt;willisb@unk.edu&gt;, R=
aymond Toy &lt;raymond.toy@ericsson.com&gt;, Maxima List &lt;maxima@www.ma.=
utexas.edu&gt;, gcl-devel &lt;gcl-devel@gnu.org&gt;<BR>From: Mike Thomas &l=
t;mthomas@gil.com.au&gt;<BR>Date: 11/19/2004 04:50PM<BR>Subject: Some rando=
m thoughts on future features<BR><BR><font face=3D"monospace" size=3D2>Hi B=
arton.<BR><BR>Thanks for your follow-up test with "cl::real".<BR><BR>Looks =
like GCL 2.6.5 (the stable release I tried yesterday) has problems <BR>with=
 PCL and ANSI, as following on from your result I took CVS Maxima <BR>(usin=
g the Maxima-local batch file) built with CVS GCL and tried out <BR>Rays' o=
riginal code (without the package manipulation I suggested) ie:<BR><BR>1. t=
o=5Flisp()<BR><BR>2. Cut and paste Ray's original Lisp CLOS code<BR><BR>3. =
(to-maxima)<BR><BR>4. Cut and paste Ray's origional Maxima test code and I'=
m pleased to say <BR>that modulo some compiler noise, it worked as below.<B=
R><BR>I may not be subscribed to the Maxima list from this email address so=
 it <BR>may take a while for this message to get through there.<BR><BR>Chee=
rs<BR><BR>Mike Thomas.<BR><BR><BR>JACOBI-SN-BIGFLOAT<BR>MAXIMA&gt; (to-maxi=
ma)<BR>Returning to Maxima<BR>(%o1) &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbs=
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