Problems with ONEARGCHECK and TWOARGCHECK

> From:  Dieter Kaiser
> 
> Today I recognized a strange behaviour of the code of 
> ONEARGCHECK and TWOARGCHECK which test the correct number of 
> arguments of a Maxima function.
> 
> A correct example for the Gamma function:
> 
> (%i2) gamma(1,2);
> Wrong number of arguments to gamma
>  -- an error.  To debug this try debugmode(true);
> (%i3) gamma();
> Wrong number of arguments to gamma
>  -- an error.  To debug this try debugmode(true);
> 
> But when I test the Bessel J function I get the following:
> 
> (%i4) bessel_j(1);
> (%o4) bessel_j(1, #<compiled-closure 03cd5e38>)
> (%i5) bessel_j(1,2,3);
> (%o5) bessel_j(1, 2)
> 
> One more example for the Airy function:
> 
> (%i7) airy_ai();
> (NIL . |$;|) is a cons with an atomic cdr - `simplifya'
>  -- an error.  To debug this try debugmode(true);
> 
> (%i8) airy_ai(1,2);
> (%o8) airy_ai(1)
> 
> Is this only a problem of my system? What is wrong?
> 
> I use gcl 2.6.8 and the Maxiam CVS code on a Windows XP system.
> 
> Dieter Kaiser

airy.lisp was my first lisp contribution to maxima, and a little
learning
project.  There may be bugs.

	David Billinghurst


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