From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Matthias Koeppe Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Patch for ice-9/format.scm (removes arbitrary ~{...~} iteration limit) Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 10:32:48 +0200 Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87vfgwisdv.fsf@zip.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1089707635 6511 80.91.224.253 (13 Jul 2004 08:33:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 08:33:55 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 13 10:33:42 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BkIjN-0000r9-00 for ; Tue, 13 Jul 2004 10:33:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BkIli-0002WI-Eq for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Jul 2004 04:36:06 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BkIlJ-0002WC-FV for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jul 2004 04:35:41 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BkIlH-0002Vz-7P for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jul 2004 04:35:39 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BkIlG-0002Vw-Ro for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jul 2004 04:35:39 -0400 Original-Received: from [141.44.75.40] (helo=merkur.math.uni-magdeburg.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BkIia-0008Dg-Sh for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jul 2004 04:32:53 -0400 Original-Received: from gamma ([141.44.75.90] helo=gamma.math.uni-magdeburg.de) by merkur.math.uni-magdeburg.de with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 1BkIiY-00023a-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jul 2004 10:32:50 +0200 Original-Received: (from mkoeppe@localhost) by gamma.math.uni-magdeburg.de (8.12.9+Sun/8.12.9/Submit) id i6D8Wmom020858; Tue, 13 Jul 2004 10:32:48 +0200 (MEST) X-Authentication-Warning: gamma.math.uni-magdeburg.de: mkoeppe set sender to mkoeppe@mail.math.uni-magdeburg.de using -f Original-To: guile-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <87vfgwisdv.fsf@zip.com.au> (Kevin Ryde's message of "Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:05:16 +1000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110001 (No Gnus v0.1) Emacs/21.3.50 (usg-unix-v) X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:3863 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:3863 Kevin Ryde writes: > Matthias Koeppe writes: >> >> To my surprise, the list was cut off after the 100th element. > > I've been writing some new doco for format (and adding some checks to > my lint program), and noticed this limit too, but didn't know what it > meant. The common lisp spec doesn't say anything like it as far as I > can tell. Common Lisp definitely does no such truncation. > Maybe it was to avoid going into an infinite loop, but there's plenty > of other ways that can happen :), so it's hardly a motivation. > >> I am sending a testcase for Guile's test suite and a patch that fixes >> the problem. > > Looks likely. Kevin, could you commit the patch to CVS then? I think this should go into HEAD and the stable branch. Thanks -- Matthias Koeppe -- http://www.math.uni-magdeburg.de/~mkoeppe _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel