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From: e343ca@tamuts.tamu.edu (Colin Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: weird common lisp feature
Keywords: read, read-line
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Date: 21 Feb 91 04:35:39 GMT
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In article <12413@helios.TAMU.EDU> e343ca@tamuts.tamu.edu I asked:
>Can anyone tell me why foo1 below appears to execute the read-line
>before the print, but foo2 executes the print before the read?
>
>(defun foo1 () (print 'hello) (read-line))
>(defun foo2 () (print 'hello) (read))

I should add that I have checked this code now in Kyoto and Franz
Allegro Common Lisp and the weird behavior occurs only in kcl.  So
possibly this is a bug in kcl.  Anyone run into this before?



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