Raymond Toy wrote:...
...
> Maybe the expectation is that for compiled functions, you get to debug
> the result using the Lisp's debugger.
..
The expectation of the compiler [to the extent one can say that computer
programs have expectations :) ]
is that you've debugged the program before you compiled it! This
expectation
is unreasonable when the uncompiled function is so slow that the buggy
part is not reached for
a long time. However, wrong-number-of-argument errors can sometimes
be detected at compile
time (type-checking etc.) So maybe that should be done by the Maxima
translator etc.
RJF