From: Ken Tilton
Subject: (character "hi mom") -> ???
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 23:07:45 +0000
Message-ID: <5XV%f.55$Sv1.53@fe10.lga>

The CLHS 13.2.6 says:  (character "a") -> #\a

On win32: ACL, LW, and CLisp have a cow. er, backtrace.

CLHS mistake?

ken

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• Re: (character "hi mom") -> ??? Eric Lavigne
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  • Re: (character "hi mom") -> ??? Ken Tilton
• Re: (character "hi mom") -> ??? Wade Humeniuk
  • Re: (character "hi mom") -> ??? JP Massar

From: Eric Lavigne
Subject: Re: (character "hi mom") -> ???
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 23:17:46 +0000
Message-ID: <1145056666.372590.274990@u72g2000cwu.googlegroups.com>

> The CLHS 13.2.6 says:  (character "a") -> #\a
> On win32: ACL, LW, and CLisp have a cow. er, backtrace.
> CLHS mistake?

In CLisp 2.33 on win32 (comes with old version of LispBox):
(character "a") -> #\a

From: Peter Seibel
Subject: Re: (character "hi mom") -> ???
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 23:18:47 +0000
Message-ID: <m28xq77nl4.fsf@gigamonkeys.com>

Ken Tilton <·········@gmail.com> writes:

> The CLHS 13.2.6 says:  (character "a") -> #\a
>
> On win32: ACL, LW, and CLisp have a cow. er, backtrace.

Hmmm, on OS X ACL has no problem with:

  (character "a")

However:

  (character "hi mom")

has a cow because "hi mom" is not a character designator.

> CLHS mistake?

Doesn't seem like it.

-Peter

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From: Ken Tilton
Subject: Re: (character "hi mom") -> ???
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 15:41:52 +0000
Message-ID: <4v80g.1$ER1.0@fe08.lga>

Peter Seibel wrote:
> Ken Tilton <·········@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> 
>>The CLHS 13.2.6 says:  (character "a") -> #\a
>>
>>On win32: ACL, LW, and CLisp have a cow. er, backtrace.
> 
> 
> Hmmm, on OS X ACL has no problem with:
> 
>   (character "a")
> 
> However:
> 
>   (character "hi mom")
> 
> has a cow because "hi mom" is not a character designator.

Ouch. I got as far as the CLHS entry on that, but there were no pictures 
so I lost interest before getting to "length one".

:)

Anyway, turns out Tk reports the minus key to applications as the keysym 
"minus" instead of char-code 45, so I have to use a hash-table anyway.

Sorry for the noise.

ken

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From: Wade Humeniuk
Subject: Re: (character "hi mom") -> ???
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 23:26:39 +0000
Message-ID: <PcW%f.53360$K11.18398@clgrps12>

Ken Tilton wrote:
> The CLHS 13.2.6 says:  (character "a") -> #\a
> 
> On win32: ACL, LW, and CLisp have a cow. er, backtrace.
> 
> CLHS mistake?
> 
> ken
> 

LWW (Win32)

CL-USER 1 > (character "a")
#\a

What are you doing differently?

Wade

From: JP Massar
Subject: Re: (character "hi mom") -> ???
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 02:25:35 +0000
Message-ID: <7cm042t4di1v7nlb1nm3cl04ndgj503bh4@4ax.com>

On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 23:26:39 GMT, Wade Humeniuk
<··················@telus.net> wrote:

>Ken Tilton wrote:
>> The CLHS 13.2.6 says:  (character "a") -> #\a
>> 
>> On win32: ACL, LW, and CLisp have a cow. er, backtrace.
>> 
>> CLHS mistake?
>> 
>> ken
>> 
>
>LWW (Win32)
>
>CL-USER 1 > (character "a")
>#\a
 
Works for me on Allegro 8.0 Windows as well.