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Feature #173

Anonymous symbols: should they be available in CoCoA-5?

Added by Anna Maria Bigatti about 12 years ago. Updated almost 10 years ago.

Status:
Rejected
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
Anna Maria Bigatti
Category:
CoCoA-5 function: new
Target version:
CoCoA-5.1.1 Seoul14
Start date:
01 Jun 2012
Due date:
% Done:

100%

Estimated time:
6.00 h
Spent time:
0.70 h

Description

Latest addition in CoCoALib could also be useful in CoCoA-5...
but since symbol is not a type in CoCoA-5 that could be quite tricky.

History

#1 Updated by John Abbott about 12 years ago

Here are a couple of suggestions which do not require manipulating symbol directly. If these two fns cover almost all uses then it may be worth implementing them.

We could offer a fn for creating a polyring all of whose indets are "anonymous"; the user simply says how many indets there are.

We could also offer a fn which "extends" an existing polyring by adding (1 or more) anonymous indets to it -- by convention these indets would be the last ones, say.

#2 Updated by Anna Maria Bigatti about 10 years ago

  • Target version set to CoCoA-5.1.0 Easter14

#3 Updated by John Abbott about 10 years ago

  • Target version changed from CoCoA-5.1.0 Easter14 to CoCoA-5.1.1 Seoul14

#4 Updated by Anna Maria Bigatti almost 10 years ago

Now I'm incline to say "no" and reject the issue: too much hassle for very little use.
NewSymbol()/NewSymbols(n) are very useful at CoCoALib level, but not at CoCoA-5 level.

#5 Updated by Anna Maria Bigatti almost 10 years ago

  • Status changed from New to Rejected
  • Assignee set to Anna Maria Bigatti

#6 Updated by John Abbott almost 10 years ago

  • % Done changed from 0 to 100

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