errcatch doesn't catch this error

• Subject: errcatch doesn't catch this error
• From: Barton Willis
• Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 06:27:19 -0500

(%i10) errcatch(taylor(log(cos(th)),th,%pi/2,2));
Maxima encountered a Lisp error: Illegal log kernel

Question: Why doesn't errcatch return []? Is this a bug in the Taylor code?

Barton

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