Must wrong length :INITIAL-CONTENTS to MAKE-ARRAY signal an error?

From: Marco Antoniotti
Subject: Must wrong length :INITIAL-CONTENTS to MAKE-ARRAY signal an error?
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 00:00:00 +0000
Message-ID: <lwbtk4nafr.fsf@copernico.parades.rm.cnr.it>

According to my reading of the Hyperspec whether or not it should is
left to the specific implementation. Is this correct?

In CMUCL

	(make-array 3 :initial-contents '(1 2))

does signal an error (a SIMPLE-ERROR to be more precise).

Cheers

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