On 2012-06-15, Stavros Macrakis <macrakis at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> I haven't followed this whole email chain, but I believe asksign is
> supposed to throw an error on non-real arguments unless *complexsign* = T.
Right, but the logic to detect a complex argument to asksign is farther
up the food chain; ASKSIGN1 doesn't know about it. ASKSIGN1 is getting
called from somewhere else, so that error checking doesn't come into
play.
> I tried tracing asksign1/sign1/absarg to get some insight into this
> problem, but I don't get the "Is 1 zero..." question in 5.26.0/SBCL.
I'm working with the modified ABSARG which Barton posted yesterday.
best
Robert Dodier