On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 9:06 AM, maxthemouse<adamwebb_...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
>>
>> > Another thing that does not work is "sage -
>> > lisp" which gave the clisp prompt. I found this rather convenient
>> > since I could just use the clisp within sage. Is there any plan/
>> > interest to switch the this lisp interface to ecl? Does ecl use
>> > readline?
>>
>> For now you can at least start sage then type
>>
>> sage: !ecl
>>
>> to start ecl. It appears to not make any use of ecl. I don't know if
>> this is just
>> a compilation problem or an ecl limitation.
>>
>
> Thanks, I forgot about that way to do it. The lack of readline makes
> it rather unfriendly though. I am just a beginner with lisp myself.
>
>> The Sage <--> lisp interface already works fine:
>>
>> sage: lisp.eval('(+ 2 3)')
>> '5'
>>
>
> Using 4.0 and 4.0.1 I get a long traceback that ends with:
> RuntimeError: Unable to start Lisp because the command 'clisp-
> noreadline --silent -on-error abort' failed.
>
> Sage was compiled from source on Scientific Linux 5.1. I don't have a
> global clisp available though.
> I figured that it was something that had just not been looked at yet
> in the transition to ecl.
No -- it's my fault. I was testing on an install that I upgraded, and
which still had clisp sitting around.
This is now
http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/6294
I think we (=sage devel team) did a very bad job switching
from clisp to ecl. Sorry about the inconvenience.
-- William
>
> Adam
>
>> I'm not sure why %gap works but not %lisp:
>>
>> sage: %lisp
>> ERROR: Magic function `lisp` not found.
>> sage: %gap
>> --> Switching to Gap <--
>> gap:
>>
>> That should be consider a bug.
>>
>> OK, two tickets:
>>
>> (1) make "sage -lisp" run ecl:
>> http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/6287
>>
>> (2) make %lisp work and run ecl + readline
>> mode:http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/6288
>>
>> -- William
> >
>
--
William Stein
Associate Professor of Mathematics
University of Washington
http://wstein.org
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