print ( false ) bug 5.26.0

Edwin, Oliver,

Please file a bug report at sourceforge to help us track the bug and its fix.

Thanks,

           -s

On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 15:27, Oliver Kullmann <O.Kullmann at swansea.ac.uk> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I get the same 5.26.0 behaviour under ECL:
>
> (%i1) print(false,true);
>
> nil t
> Evaluation took 0.0000 seconds (0.0000 elapsed)
> (%o1) true
> (%i2) build_info();
>
> Maxima version: 5.26.0
> Maxima build date: 11:7 12/19/2011
> Host type: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
> Lisp implementation type: ECL
> Lisp implementation version: 11.1.1
>
>
> I guess it is not specified how to print "false" and "true",
> but the 5.25.1 behaviour seems much more sensible.
>
> Oliver
>
> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 11:17:24AM -0800, Edwin Woollett wrote:
>> print (false) ?----> nil ? ?in 5.26.0
>> print (false) ?----> false ? in 5.25.1
>>
>> print (true) ?-----> t ? in 5.26.0
>> print (true) ------> true ? ?in 5.25.1
>>
>> ---------------------------------
>> 5.25.1:
>>
>> (%i1) print(false)$
>>
>> false
>> (%i2) print(true)$
>>
>> true
>> (%i3) build_info()$
>>
>> Maxima version: 5.25.1
>> Maxima build date: 10:2 9/6/2011
>> Host type: i686-pc-mingw32
>> Lisp implementation type: GNU Common Lisp (GCL)
>> Lisp implementation version: GCL 2.6.8
>> ---------------------------------------
>> 5.26.0:
>>
>> (%i1) print(false)$
>> nil (%i2) print(true)$
>> t (%i3) build_info()$
>> Maxima version: 5.26.0
>> Maxima build date: 22:48 1/15/2012
>> Host type: i686-pc-mingw32
>> Lisp implementation type: GNU Common Lisp (GCL)
>> Lisp implementation version: GCL 2.6.8
>>
>> ----------------------------------
>> Ted Woollett
>>
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