I tried to post this to the ILISP mail list (which is the most
appropriate place), but I couldn't get authenticated to subscribe to the
ILISP list. I'm going to spam it here in hopes that someone out there
might know this. Here goes:
I'm EXTREMELY new to lisp! I apologize for the beginner question. I
just installed ILISP 5.10.1 and CMUCL 18c. I think these are fairly
current versions. When I try to evaluate a simple expression (i.e. (+ 2
2) ), it gives an error message right after I press the spacebar after I
enter the name of the function (before I type in the arguments). I can
then type in the arguments and close the paren. The function then
evaluates correctly.
Here is the error message:
*: ILISP: Error in KERNEL::UNDEFINED-SYMBOL-ERROR-HANDLER: the function
KERNEL:%FUNCTION-HEADER-ARGLIST is undefined.
I also installed CLISP. Everything seems to work correctly there.
Is this a common problem? Do you need any more information from me?
Thanks,
Weston
Weston Hunter <···@ix.netcom.com> writes:
> I tried to post this to the ILISP mail list (which is the most
> appropriate place), but I couldn't get authenticated to subscribe to the
> ILISP list.
This is a Sourceforge problem. Please tell them.
> I'm going to spam it here in hopes that someone out there
> might know this. Here goes:
>
> I'm EXTREMELY new to lisp! I apologize for the beginner question. I
> just installed ILISP 5.10.1
The latest ILISP version is 5.11.1. Check out
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ilisp.
> and CMUCL 18c. I think these are fairly
> current versions. When I try to evaluate a simple expression (i.e. (+ 2
> 2) ), it gives an error message right after I press the spacebar after I
> enter the name of the function (before I type in the arguments). I can
> then type in the arguments and close the paren. The function then
> evaluates correctly.
>
> Here is the error message:
> *: ILISP: Error in KERNEL::UNDEFINED-SYMBOL-ERROR-HANDLER: the function
> KERNEL:%FUNCTION-HEADER-ARGLIST is undefined.
>
> I also installed CLISP. Everything seems to work correctly there.
>
> Is this a common problem? Do you need any more information from me?
This problem is known and is fixed in 5.11.1.
Try to upgrade.
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Weston Hunter <···@ix.netcom.com> writes:
| I'm EXTREMELY new to lisp! I apologize for the beginner question. I
| just installed ILISP 5.10.1 and CMUCL 18c. I think these are fairly
| current versions. When I try to evaluate a simple expression (i.e. (+ 2
Unfortunately 5.10.1 is very old. Get 5.11.1 via
<http://ilisp.cons.org/> (follow the links to the SourceForge
pages). The archive name is ilisp-5.11.tar.gz but I think it is
really 5.11.1 (for some reason 5.11.1 isn't even tagged in CVS...)
The problems you had have been fixed in 5.11*.
--
Hannu
Weston Hunter wrote:
> I just installed ILISP 5.10.1 and CMUCL 18c. I think these are fairly
> current versions.
cmucl 18c is recent but ilisp-5.10.1 is not. Try ilisp 5.11.
> Is this a common problem? Do you need any more information from me?
Yes. To help diagnose these kinds of problems, what OS (unixen of
course) and version of emacs/xemacs are you running?
Best Regards,
Will