building maxima, questions



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<eb9c4b9a0705040805j23fe2f41q3677c6cffb6e35b8 at mail.gmail.com>,
 "Robert Dodier" <robert.dodier at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.

I used "" for now. ;-)

> 
> best
> Robert Dodier

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