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#364 coerce is missing from domain Expression  ← ↑ →  #366 gcl-2.6.7 crashes building "wh-sandbox"

#365 random does not produce arbitrarily large numbers
  
last edited 17 years ago by kratt6

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Time: 2007/12/28 15:20:31 GMT-8
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From: kratt6
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 15:20:31 -0800
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Status: pending (next release) => closed

Submitted by : (unknown) at: 2007-11-17T22:33:41-08:00 (17 years ago)
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It seems that gcl 2.8.pre hits a hard limit with random. The Hyperspec says it shouldn't...

fricas
(1) -> )lisp (random (expt 10 500))

   Your user access level is compiler and this command is therefore not
      available. See the )set userlevel command for more information.
fricas
)lisp (random (expt 10 500))

   Your user access level is compiler and this command is therefore not
      available. See the )set userlevel command for more information.
fricas
)lisp (random (expt 10 500))

   Your user access level is compiler and this command is therefore not
      available. See the )set userlevel command for more information.

fixed in gcl 2.7.0 --kratt6, Tue, 26 Jun 2007 15:21:49 -0500 reply
Status: open => pending (next release)

... --kratt6, Fri, 28 Dec 2007 15:20:31 -0800 reply
Status: pending (next release) => closed