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[HIC at MIT-MC (Howard I. Cannon)]

From:     JLS@MIT-AI
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 79 19:29:02 GMT
Original-Date: 06/18/79 15:29:02 EDT
Subject:
    HI,
        I FOUND SOME STRANGE BEHAVIOR IN LISP. THE FOLLOWING IS
    THE TYPE-IN AND TYPE-OUT AS IT APPEARED ON THE SCREEN. IT
    SEEMS THAT THE FUNCTION TO CONSTRUCT ATOMS FROM INPUT GETS
    CONFUSED AND PUTS IN A DELIMITER WHERE THERE IS NONE.


    (DEFUN FOO (X Y) (PRINT (TYI)) (PRINT (READ)))
    FOO
    (SSTATUS TTYINT 6 'FOO)
    FOO

    BAR<SPACE>       ;; I TYPE IN CONTROL-F "BAR" AND <SPACE>
    6                  ;; FOO ECHOES CONTROL-F
    BAR HJK<SPACE>     ;; FOO ECHOES BAR. I TYPE <SPACE>HJK<SPACE>

    ;H UNBOUND VARIABLE

    ;BKPT UNBND-VRBL
     
    ;JK UNBOUND VARIABLE


         CAN YOU TELL ME WHY HJK IS SPLIT UP INTO TWO ATOMS.

             JIM STANSFIELD