Is it a bug?



I just tried this using 

Maxima 5.15.0cvs http://maxima.sourceforge.net
Using Lisp CLISP 2.44.1 (2008-02-23)

I get the same behavior.

David

On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 08:50 -0600, Robert Dodier wrote:
> On 5/14/08, Alexey Beshenov <al at beshenov.ru> wrote:
> 
> > In 5.14.0 (CLISP 2.41) calling desolve inside a "for...do" block makes it
> > loop endlessly. Is it a bug?
> >
> > (%i1) for i : 1 thru 3 do (print(i));
> > 1
> > 2
> > 3
> > (%o1)                               done
> >
> > (%i2) for i : 1 thru 3 do (desolve('diff(foo(x),x)=1,foo(x)), print(i));
> > 1
> > 1
> > 1
> > ...
> 
> Well, that is certainly a bug. I have observed that in 5.14.0 official
> release but not in cvs versions from a little before and a little after
> the release, so that is kind of puzzling. Can someone else try it?
> 
> best
> 
> Robert Dodier
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