Maxima 5.9.1 and SBCL 0.8.17



>>>>> "Vadim" == Vadim V Zhytnikov <vvzhy@mail.ru> writes:

    Vadim> But isn't

    Vadim> (typep "12" '(simple-base-string 2)) -> NIL

    Vadim> wrong?  CLISP, GCL and CLISP (with Unicode support
    Vadim> as well) all agree that this is T.

I think it depends on the external format being used to read the
entire form in.  I'm not very familiar with unicode.

Ray