On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 09:37:21PM -0500, PJ Hyett wrote:

I'm a total Lisp newbie working my way through the new Practical Common Lisp book and I've encountered an odd problem. Using these functions:

(defun prompt-read (prompt) (format *query-io* "~a: " prompt) (force-output *query-io*) (read-line *query-io*))

(defun prompt-twice() (prompt read (prompt-read "hello"))

Running this on the REPL: (prompt-twice)

Gives me the following output: hello: hi hi:

"" NIL

The program exits before I have a change to enter anything on the hi: line. Any Lisp guys out there wanna set me straight? I'm using Lisp in a Box on Suse 9.2 Pro.

I think somebody reported a similar problem on slime-devel. Apparently the solution was to update Slime. I'm copying Peter on this this so he can test it and update his Slime in LispBox as appropriate. -bcd -- *** Brian Downing <bdowning at lavos dot net>