lisp or draw error



Robert Dodier pisze:
> On 6/29/08, Adam Majewski <adammaj1 at o2.pl> wrote:
> 
>>  For some values of epsilon:
>>  epsilon:0.01
>>  I got error:
>>
>>  Maxima encountered a Lisp error:
>>   Error in FORMAT [or a callee]: Can't print a non-number.
> 
> GCL does not complain if a floating point result is infinity or
> not-a-number, but it cannot print such values.
> I might have reported that to their bug tracker.

Yes please do it.
> 
> Depending on how you look at it, the bug is either that GCL didn't
> complain about the non-numeric result (if you conclude from reading
> the CL spec that such values are banned) or that it has failed to
> print the result (if such values are allowed).
> 
> Not sure what you can do, short of reworking your function to
> ensure that such values are never generated (or never printed).
> Maybe you can run Maxima in another Lisp implementation.

Thx. I will try.

Adam