Re: [babel-devel] Changes

On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 11:56 PM, Dan Weinreb dlw@itasoftware.com wrote:

I don't understand why.  If code-char is allowed to return nil, explicitly, in the CL standard, why consider that to be a babel test failure?

Suppose (code-char 237) returned NIL instead of #\í. That's allowed by the CL standard, but I'm positive some Babel test should fail because of that.

One might argue that Babel's expectation of being able to encode every code point as a character is not reasonable, but that's the current expectation and the test suite reflects that. (And it passes in all Lisps except CCL.)

If it helps, we can split such a test away from the roundtrip test, though, and mark it as an expected failure on CCL, for example.