[Axiom-developer] Re: metalex change

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, address@hidden wrote:

| Gaby,
| 
|  (test 'rule1)
| 
| eventually does a call to strconc, a vmlisp function.
| The strconc function is defined in vmlisp.lisp as
|   
|   (define-function 'strconc #'concat)
| 
| The concat function is defined in vmlisp.lisp as a call to
| 
|   (system:string-concatenate a b)
| 
| If you call:
| 
|   (strconc "PARSE-" 'rule1)
| 
| you get
| 
|   "PARSE-RULE1"
| 
| so the original code is correct as written.

No, the orignal code did not have a quote -- that is how the SBCL compiler
discover the bugs.  It was plain Rule1 without quote.

Also, if the function expects strings, we should give it a string.

-- Gaby