[Gcl-devel] Re: setf bug

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings, and thanks!  Should be fixed now.

Take care,


Robert Boyer <address@hidden> writes:

> Here's a bug in setf.
> 
> In GCL,
> 
>   (setf (subseq "xyz" 0 1) "b") => "byz"
> 
> but the correct return value is "b", or at least so say, Allegro, CMU, and
> Clisp.
> 
> The ANSI examples certainly also suggest that GCL is incorrect, e.g.,
> 
>  (setq str "012345") => "012345"
>  (setf (subseq str 4) "abc") => "abc"
> 
>  But GCL returns "0123ab".
> 
> Bob
> 
> 
> 

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Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
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