Stavros Macrakis wrote:
> Hi, Ray. Do they support an arbitrary number of arguments, or do they
> also have some arbitrary lowish limit (e.g. 1023 or 64k arguments)?
They all have limits, at least according to the value of
call-arguments-limit.
As mentioned in a previous email call-arguments-limit is:
gcl 64
ecl 65536
clisp 4096
cmucl most-positive-fixnum (536870911)
Some random googling produces these values:
ACL(Unix) 16384
MCL 8192
OpenMcl 8192
LispWorks 300 (Mac)
>
> Do we have any sense at all of what Lisps people are using (even based
> on a biased sample like bug reports)? On Windows, I would guess that
> GCL is >>90% of the users, since it is what the prebuilt version uses....
That is also my guess.
I also suspect that someone eventually plans to drop gcl in favor of ecl
on Windows. But that's complete speculation on my part, though.
Ray