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CoCoA-4 mode --
Backward compatibility mode for CoCoA-4
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*** E ***
where E is a CoCoA-4 expression.
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CoCoA-5 is not fully backward compatible with CoCoA-4, i.e. some
CoCoA-4 programs will be rejected by CoCoA-5. CoCoA-4 mode helps ease
the transition to CoCoA-5.
In CoCoA-4 it was not necessary to write explicitly the product between
two indeterminates; in CoCoA-5 this is obligatory.
The expression
E may also contain function calls, but only if the
function names begin with a capital letter.
/**/ use QQ[x,y,z];
/**/ f := 2*x^2*y - 3*x*y*z - 4*y^2*z + 5*y*z^2 + 6*z^3;
/**/ g := ***2x^2y - 3xyz - 4y^2z + 5yz^2 + 6z^3***; --> C4 mode
/**/ f = g;
true
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