[Maxima] GCL ?Maxima Lisp bug in defpackage??

[Jaime Villate]

On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 12:29 -0800, Richard Fateman wrote:
> get to lisp via to_lisp()  in xmaxima..
> 
> MAXIMA> (defpackage :r (:use "ga"))
> 
> Maxima encountered a Lisp error:
> 
>  Error in LISP:USE-PACKAGE [or a callee]: "ga" is not of type (LISP:OR
> 
> LISP:SYMBOL
> 
> LISP:STRING
>  
> LISP:PACKAGE).

I cannot reproduce your result; with the current Xaxima I get:

  MAXIMA> (defpackage :r (:use "ga"))

  Maxima encountered a Lisp error:
 
  SYSTEM::%FIND-PACKAGE: There is no package with name "ga"

  Automatically continuing.
  To reenable the Lisp debugger set *debugger-hook* to nil.

(same result in Maxima). Which version are you using?
Regards,
Jaime Villate