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Re: Patch for ice-9/format.scm (removes arbitrary ~{...~} iteration limi


From: Matthias Koeppe
Subject: Re: Patch for ice-9/format.scm (removes arbitrary ~{...~} iteration limit)
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 10:32:48 +0200
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Kevin Ryde <address@hidden> writes:

> Matthias Koeppe <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>> To my surprise, the list was cut off after the 100th element.
>
> I've been writing some new doco for format (and adding some checks to
> my lint program), and noticed this limit too, but didn't know what it
> meant.  The common lisp spec doesn't say anything like it as far as I
> can tell.

Common Lisp definitely does no such truncation.

> Maybe it was to avoid going into an infinite loop, but there's plenty
> of other ways that can happen :), so it's hardly a motivation.
>
>> I am sending a testcase for Guile's test suite and a patch that fixes
>> the problem.
>
> Looks likely.

Kevin, could you commit the patch to CVS then?  I think this should
go into HEAD and the stable branch.

Thanks
-- 
Matthias Koeppe -- http://www.math.uni-magdeburg.de/~mkoeppe




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