Hello, (I apologize for the wide email distribution. There is a small probability the issue described here is due to a mismatch between iterate or sbcl). The package gsd <http://repo.or.cz/w/gsd.git>, part of gsll<http://common-lisp.net/project/gsll/>uses iterate to loop over elements of vectors and matrices. I have attached the part of the package that extends iterate to this email. I am having the following issue on sbcl1.034 on RHEL5 64-bit linux, via slime. The following form evaluates OK at the REPL. (iter:iter (iter:for c :matrix-row grid::*array-3-4-double-float* ) (print c)) But, if I embed it into a function: (defun foo () (iter:iter (iter:for c :matrix-row grid::*array-3-4-double-float*) (print c))) it will evaluate OK in slime (C-x C-e), but will not compile (C-c C-c). The returned error is:

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post-processing/xpdp-post-processing.lisp:75:3: error: Objects of type FUNCTION can't be dumped into fasl files. --> LET* BLOCK TAGBODY PROGN SETQ THE FUNCALL SB-C::%FUNCALL THE --> SB-KERNEL:%COERCE-CALLABLE-TO-FUN ==> #<FUNCTION (LAMBDA #) {1002DD7AD9}> note: The first argument never returns a value. --> LET* BLOCK TAGBODY PROGN SETQ THE FUNCALL SB-C::%FUNCALL THE ==> (SB-KERNEL:%COERCE-CALLABLE-TO-FUN #<FUNCTION # {1002DD7AD9}>) ... more stuff

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So, it seems that sbcl can digest it, but for some reason cannot write it to a fasl. The macroexpansion of the code above is: (LET* ((#:SEQUENCE120 NIL) (#:LIMIT121 NIL) (C NIL) (#:INDEX119 NIL)) (BLOCK NIL (TAGBODY (PROGN (SETQ #:SEQUENCE120 GRID::*ARRAY-3-4-DOUBLE-FLOAT*) (SETQ #:LIMIT121 (FUNCALL # #:SEQUENCE120)) (SETQ #:INDEX119 -1)) LOOP-TOP-NIL (PROGN (SETQ #:INDEX119 (+ #:INDEX119 1)) (IF (>= #:INDEX119 #:LIMIT121) (GO LOOP-END-NIL)) (SETQ C (FUNCALL # #:SEQUENCE120 #:INDEX119)) (PRINT C)) (PROGN) (GO LOOP-TOP-NIL) LOOP-END-NIL (PROGN)) NIL)) Is this issue due to a malformed extension of iterate, or some misalignment between iterate and sbcl? Thank you, Mirko