Thanks Mark! A confusing area of common lisp for sure... -Alan On Thursday, February 4, 2010, Mark Evenson <evenson@panix.com> wrote:

On 2/3/10 8:22 PM, Alan Ruttenberg wrote: […]

pre-r12283 ABCL was buggy in a different way. My best understanding is that the behavior observed in sbcl and my patched abcl is correct.

Ok, now I think I understand the problem  Sorry for the confusion on my part.

Your fix [has been committed in r12147][1].

[1]: http://trac.common-lisp.net/armedbear/changeset/12417

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