Erik, thanks for looking into the problem. --- On Wed, 8/5/09, Erik Huelsmann <ehuels@gmail.com> wrote:
in SPRDET.lisp, there's a top-level special declaration of the variable name X.
In ABCL, there's a non-trivial difference between evaluation of a special variable versus a local variable.
So, renaming the special variable could be a solution, but that would require a change on part of Maxima;
In this case, there is no problem with changing Maxima, e.g. rename X to *X* or just cut out the special declaration (glancing at the code, it seems the declaration may be unnecessary). As you know, Maxima is an archaic program. This business about special X falls under the heading of "general clean-up" to me.
I'm thinking about how to revert the side effect at the end of the file compilation.
Well, there is a (DECLARE-TOP (UNSPECIAL X)) later on. I guess what is needed is an implementation of "unspecial" for ABCL. best Robert Dodier