Greetings! My mistake -- I thought maxima was overwriting some GCL
functions. This is not the case -- my apologies.
In any case, should be fixed now. Please let me know if problems
persist.
Take care,
"Robert Dodier" <robert.dodier at gmail.com> writes:
> Camm,
>
> > I take it maxima redefines toplevel or equivalent -- then why not call
> > (get-temp-dir) in the redefined version?
>
> I must be missing something here. I really don't see how Maxima,
> or any random user program, can take on the responsibility to
> initialize its Lisp implementation.
>
> > Everyone is area of *top-level-hook*, yes? The way it appears to me
> > at the moment, get-temp-dir would be properly invoked were the maxima
> > toplevel to be invoked via this hook.
>
> It appears that *top-level-hook* is GCL-specific (it doesn't appear in CLHS)
> but if we can resolve this problem by arranging to be called
> via *top-level-hook*, that would be better than calling (get-temp-dir) directly.
>
> All the best
> Robert
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