One of my students found the following
Maxima 5.13.0 http://maxima.sourceforge.net
Using Lisp GNU Common Lisp (GCL) GCL 2.6.8 (aka GCL)
(%i1) foo(n) := printf(true,"~d",n)$
(%i2) compile(foo)$
...
(%i3) foo(7)$
7
(%i4) compile(foo)$
...
(%i5) foo(7)$
n
printf is a macro function from package stringproc.
Is this behaviour due to printf itself or is there a general problem with compiling macro
functions?
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