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 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---