[cl-json-devel] Re: [PATCH] Explicitly test for alist instead of type error

[Stephen Compall]

Stephen Compall <s11 at member.fsf.org> writes:
> Clozure CL (current SVN, maybe release I dunno) does this:
>
> (map 'list #'identity '(x . "abc"))
>  => (x #\b #\c)
>
> Which breaks the alist case in encoder.lisp.

And is furthermore permissible behavior, as discussed in
http://trac.clozure.com/openmcl/ticket/328 -- so a program may not
anyway portably rely on the above signaling a type-error.

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