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Re: Bug? Whats wrong with the symbol -i?

To: "Brian D. Carlstrom" <bdc@ai.mit.edu>
Subject: Re: Bug? Whats wrong with the symbol -i?
From: Steven Jenkins <sjenkins@ms.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 18:40:17 -0400
Cc: Leif Nixon <nixon@softlab.se>, scsh-news@martigny.ai.mit.edu
This, of course, is because you have innums turned on..

>Leif Nixon writes:
> > I seem to have stumbled across another bug.
>
>We get this behavior from scheme48. the reader thinks -i is an imaginary
>number.
>
>Scsh 0.5
>> '-1
>-1
>> '-i
>0-1i
>> (string->symbol "-i")
>'-i
>> 

Steven L. Jenkins

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