[Maxima] Two problems with laplace

[Raymond Toy]

Dieter Kaiser wrote:
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> Von: robert.dodier at gmail.com [mailto:robert.dodier at gmail.com] 
> Gesendet: Montag, 23. März 2009 23:35
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>   
>> I wonder if UNWIND-PROTECT is strong enough.
>> I ran into a problem recently in which UNWIND-PROTECT
>> failed to catch something, and so I had to put
>> IGNORE-ERRORS instead.
>>     
>
> You are right, UNWIND-PROTECT is not strong enough. I get further the problem
> with an increasing number of contexts.
>   
Doesn't that sound like a bug in unwind-protect in the lisp
implementation?  You shouldn't be able to exit an unwind-protect without
running the cleanup forms, I think.

Ray