Cleanup Issue MAKE-CONCATENATED-STREAM-EXAMPLE

Category
CLARIFICATION
References
MAKE-CONCATENATED-STREAM (CLtL, page 329, and ANSI Draft, page 6-19)

Problem Description

When evaluating the example from the ANSI Draft standard, shown below,

	(read (make-concatenated-stream
		     (make-string-input-stream "1")
		     (make-string-input-stream "2")))

the value returned is either 12, from MAC and VAX implementations, or 1, from the Symbolics implementation.

Proposal

Specify the correct value to be returned and verify that other implementations do not make the same mistake. (Note: I sent a bug report to Symbolics.)

Rationale

For purposes of conformance and validity.

Current Practice

As stated above.

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