[Ecls-list] Maxima + ECL

Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll jjgarcia at users.sourceforge.net
Sun Jan 13 08:07:09 UTC 2008

Hi Robert,

i think your effort is very interesting, but as Waldek points out,
there are a lot of details missing in your letter.

In particular one needs reproducible cases. ECL reads perfectly fine
the symbol ".n." when I type it, how and when does this happen? Can
you find out a minimal example? Or can you set up a tarball with the
sources and a script to reproduce it?

Same thing applies to the compilation problems. The compiler does not
require functions to be defined before compiling a file. I cannot
really say 100% sure what you are doing, but it seems like when you
load the file first and then compile things are fine.

If this is the case, it is most likely a symptom for some macro not
being present in the environment when the file is compiled, for
instance due to a bogus eval-when declaration, or because Maxima
simply requires a certain process during compilation: it is not just
compile-file for each of the files, as some files may required macros
which are loaded in others.


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Ciudad Universitaria s/n Madrid 28040 (Spain)

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