problem with sbcl when it thinks it's not interactive

Hello, Maxima Community,

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andrey G. Grozin" 
To: 
Sent: Monday, November 21, 2005 1:39 PM
Subject: problem with sbcl when it thinks it's not interactive


> Hello *,
>
> There is a problem with sbcl and cmucl based maxima which
> makes interactive work with them from TeXmacs next to
> impossible. gcl and clisp are OK in this respect.
>
> The problem is not directly related to TeXmacs. You can see
> it if you say
>
> cat | maxima -l sbcl
>
> at the command prompt. Then, at the (%i1) prompt, say
> something which cause maxima to ask a question, say,
>
> integrate(sqrt(x^2+a),x);
>
> maxima asks about a. OK, let's answer
>
> pos;
>

I would like to say an opinion  (may be off topic here) that it's not good
thing from methodological point of view when MAXIMA tries to ask something
interactively.
I'm going to use MAXIMA as programming language and this point will make
disadvantages.
Is there any plans inside MAXIMA community to suзpress such MAXIMA
behaviour?

> After that, maxima hangs, and the only thing to be done
> is to kill the process.
>

Best,

-Andrey