From: ······@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu
Subject: How to make multi-dimensional arrays with var. dimension??
Date: Mon, 08 Jul 1991 04:53:20 +0000
Message-ID: <1991Jul8.045320.23002@newserve.cc.binghamton.edu>

Hi, I tried doing this:

(setf n 30)
(setf new-array (make-array (n 10)))

;;compiler thinks (n 10) is a function

SO HOW CAN I make an array whose atleast one dimension is taken from
the value of a variable 'n'.

NOTE: One can make a uni-dimensional but not multi-dimensional!!
 eg. (setf new-array (make-array n)) ;;  is fine.

Thanks for any replies.

From: Simon Leinen
Subject: Re: How to make multi-dimensional arrays with var. dimension??
Date: Mon, 08 Jul 1991 08:49:46 +0000
Message-ID: <SIMON.91Jul8104946@liasun1.epfl.ch>

In article <·····················@newserve.cc.binghamton.edu>
······@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu writes:

   (setf n 30)
   (setf new-array (make-array (n 10)))

   ;;compiler thinks (n 10) is a function

   SO HOW CAN I make an array whose atleast one dimension is taken from
   the value of a variable 'n'.

You should have said
   (setf new-array (make-array (list n 10)))

I'd recommend reading ((the first sections of) chapter 5 of) Common
Lisp, the Language by Guy L. Steele.
-- 
Simon.