[cl-typesetting-devel] Iterate patch

[Klaus Weidner]

On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 08:05:44AM +0100, Arthur Lemmens wrote:
> Peter Seibel wrote:
> 
> >So the problem I mentioned with iterate.lisp and Allegro 7.0 seems to
> >be something that could arguably be considered a bug in ITERATE. At
> >any rate it's not going to be fixed in Allegro any time soon.
> 
> I reported a problem with iterate on Allegro 7.0 beta to Andreas Fuchs
> on the iterate mailing list a few weeks ago.  Andreas came up with a fix
> almost immediately.  By the looks of your patch, it seems to have been
> the same problem.

Is this problem due to the presence of ignore-errors inside iter? clisp
refused to compile that. The patch I had sent Saturday worked around that
problem by moving the ignore-errors construct into a separate function.
But fixing the iterate code is of course the better long term solution.

-Klaus