Robert Dodier wrote:
> On 6/18/08, Raymond Toy <toy.raymond at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>> Can you try (coerce 1 '(double-float * *))? Does it work? There was a bug
>> in clisp 2.4x where that didn't work, even though it's perfectly legal.
>>
>
> Well, that's the immediate problem, but it occurs to me that probably
> it would be more useful to just go ahead and call $FLOAT on the
> input matrix. COERCE can't do anything with Maxima rationals
> or radicals or declared constants or bigfloats, etc.
>
>
Yes, that's probably the right thing to do.
Ray