[armedbear-devel] Bug in reader case handling

12 Dec 2011

      Greetings,

Given a file name ff.lisp containing the following:

(setf (readtable-case *readtable*) :invert)

(defpackage "abc"
  (:use "COMMON-LISP")
  (:export "MYFUN"))
(in-package "abc")

(defun myfun (a b)
  (+ a b))

; EOF

Then try:

(use-package "abc")
(myfun 4 5)
(abc:myfun 4 5)  ;  this should not work
(ABC:myfun 4 5) ; this should work

This works as described in sbcl, cmucl, clisp and ecl but doesn't work
in abcl.  It seams abcl takes into account the case of the entire
"ABCL:myfun" when dealing with case.  All the other lisps treat "ABC"
and "myfun" separately in terms of string case.

Blake McBride