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Another bug (almost!) bites the dust
- To: KMP at MIT-MC, JGA at MIT-MC
- Subject: Another bug (almost!) bites the dust
- From: JONL at MIT-MC (Jon L White)
- Date: Tue, 2 Dec 80 10:10:00 GMT
- Cc: (BUG LISP) at MIT-MC
- Original-date: 2 DEC 1980 0510-EST
Regarding
Date: 1 December 1980 15:25-EST
From: John G. Aspinall <JGA at MIT-MC>
Subject: STRING and `
. . .
`(foo "bar")
(FOO T)
The bug here related to hunks which weren't VECTORs, thus
`(foo #(a b c)) would win OK. However, backquote on hunks has
been losing for a long time.
Date: 1 December 1980 16:01-EST
From: Kent M. Pitman <KMP at MIT-MC>
Oh, well. Another bug bites the dust. I made a patch to NILCOM;BACKQ and
recompiled it so that the `"FOO" bug doesn't occur. . . .
So I took this opportunity to fix up the whole thing, including
other kinds of backquoted hunk lossage.
For the record, there is a simple place in the (new) code where
Q-sequences are backquoted over, and it would be a trivial thing to
make ` work over, say, STRUCTures (if only we knew what we wanted to
do about printing them!).