cint, ascii problems



This works fine in Maxima 5.15/GCL/Windows and so appears to be a problem in
some other Lisp implementation. Could you please report this bug to our bug
tracker, following the instructions (including the full version information)
supplied by bug_report()?

Thanks,

           -s

On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 9:42 PM, Alasdair McAndrew <amca01 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Can anybody explain this (v 5.15.0):
>
> (%i1) cint("B");
> (%o1)                                98
> (%i2) ascii(%);
> (%o2)                                &b
> (%i3) ascii(98);
> (%o3)                                &b
> (%i4) cint(%);
> (%o4)                                98
>
> Given that the ascii value for "B" is in fact 66, what's going on here?
> What's this "&b"?
>
> Thanks,
> Alasdair
>
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