building maxima, questions



On 5/4/07, Rainer Joswig <joswig at lisp.de> wrote:

> src/suprv1.lisp
>
>
> (defmvar $prompt
>     '_
>   nil
>   no-reset)
>
> The documentation NIL is not of type string. The form expands
> to a DEFVAR form. In ANSI-CL the documentation argument to DEFVAR
> is defined to be a string.

Rainer, which version of Lisp are you using?

Just curious; for the sake of compliance I guess it would be
easy enough to change NIL to "" or, who knows, paste some
informative text in there.

best
Robert Dodier