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Re: Patch for ice-9/format.scm (removes arbitrary ~{...~} iteration limi
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Matthias Koeppe |
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Re: Patch for ice-9/format.scm (removes arbitrary ~{...~} iteration limit) |
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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
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Matthias Koeppe -- http://www.math.uni-magdeburg.de/~mkoeppe