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From 05 Mar 2012 to 03 Apr 2012

03 Apr 2012

15:41 Bug #118: unistd and call to access in Main.C
Discovering that BOOST seems to offer a ready-made solution, and that @access@ is old-style C-library.
John Abbott
15:40 Bug #118 (Closed): unistd and call to access in Main.C
Replace call to @access@ in Main.C (about line 192) by calls to BOOST filesystem fns such as @exists@ and @is_regular... John Abbott
14:58 Bug #117: Added 3 times defn of isblank fn
As far as I can tell BOOST does not offer such a simple fn.
John Abbott
14:44 Bug #117 (Closed): Added 3 times defn of isblank fn
To enable compilation on MSVC, I had to add defn of @isblank@.
Currently there are 3 separate (but identical) defns ...
John Abbott

02 Apr 2012

16:26 Bug #88 (Closed): Makefile problem with GUI on linux
Anna Maria Bigatti

28 Mar 2012

14:29 Bug #115 (Closed): PP ordering bug
The error was in Interpreter.C: I got the wrong "symmetry" with LessOrEqual.... Anna Maria Bigatti
13:53 Bug #115 (Closed): PP ordering bug
... John Abbott

27 Mar 2012

13:28 Feature #18: Printing matrices: I/O unified style for CoCoA-5?
John Abbott wrote:
> I do not like the "abandoned" square bracket at the end of the first line.
>
> Generally I pref...
Anna Maria Bigatti
10:04 Feature #18: Printing matrices: I/O unified style for CoCoA-5?
I do not like the "abandoned" square bracket at the end of the first line.
After speaking yesterday, we also conclud...
John Abbott

26 Mar 2012

17:42 Feature #18: Printing matrices: I/O unified style for CoCoA-5?
after using the "old style" for a while I'm getting more and more convinced that a matrix should also print its own r... Anna Maria Bigatti

23 Mar 2012

14:41 Feature #7: Automatic mapping between (some) rings
Probably the simplest definition is simply that R1 is "simpler" than R2 if the construction of R2 passed explicitly v... John Abbott

22 Mar 2012

15:20 Feature #90 (Closed): Make the new fn CoefficientsWRT available in C5
Anna Maria Bigatti
13:50 Feature #90: Make the new fn CoefficientsWRT available in C5
John Abbott wrote:
> At the moment it is not clear to JAA what the CoCoALib interface should be if we adopt the RING...
Anna Maria Bigatti

21 Mar 2012

16:18 Feature #90: Make the new fn CoefficientsWRT available in C5
Here are some arguments in favour of the interface which wants a list of RINGELEM to specify which indets:
* JAA bel...
John Abbott

20 Mar 2012

16:21 Bug #108 (Closed): Unhandled division by zero in FFp
John Abbott

19 Mar 2012

18:01 Bug #109 (Closed): SmoothFactor should allow large first arg
Anna Maria Bigatti
14:51 Bug #109 (Closed): SmoothFactor should allow large first arg
Second arg should be small (e.g. up to 2^32-1), but first arg may be big without any problems... John Abbott
17:14 Bug #108 (Resolved): Unhandled division by zero in FFp
Fixed, but the error is indicated at the operator... Anna Maria Bigatti
14:36 Bug #108 (Closed): Unhandled division by zero in FFp
Here's a sample case... John Abbott
16:45 Bug #110: Surprise return type for GCD of a list of ints
The function @AsINT@ can be used as a workaround:... John Abbott
16:19 Bug #110 (Closed): Surprise return type for GCD of a list of ints
JAA expected GCD of a list of INTs to produce an INT; instead it produces a RINGELEM (in ZZ)... John Abbott
11:45 Feature #105: Add I*f and f*I (RINGELEM and IDEAL)
Just a quick note reporting what we'd already said vocally: both left and right multiplication should be enabled (par... John Abbott
11:42 Bug #104: Misprints suggestions: Z --> ZZ
Are you asking to add
# special checks for the names "Z" and "Q" in a context where a ring is to be expected?
# spe...
John Abbott

16 Mar 2012

07:42 Feature #106 (In Progress): I:f (IDEAL and RINGELEM) -- operator colon
cocoa-4 had no warning for I:xy being intepreted as (I:x)*y, but cocoa-5 does!
So we can resume that syntax.
Make...
Anna Maria Bigatti
07:38 Feature #105 (Closed): Add I*f and f*I (RINGELEM and IDEAL)
Multiplication of RINGELEM and IDEAL is missing.
Add it to CoCoALib and CoCoA-5.
(Multiply, product: keys for "Se...
Anna Maria Bigatti

15 Mar 2012

12:31 Bug #104 (Closed): Misprints suggestions: Z --> ZZ
CoCoA-5 is very helpful with suggestions on misprints.
Is it possible to improve this case? i.e. suggest "ZZ" as we...
Anna Maria Bigatti
11:57 Bug #103 (Closed): Bad error mesg using operator ":"
The session excerpt below contains an erroneous error message.
I think the operator should be just ":" -- it certain...
John Abbott

12 Mar 2012

11:09 Bug #98 (Resolved): RealRoots should use IsRational
John Abbott
11:09 Bug #98: RealRoots should use IsRational
Fixed the bug -- actually quite easy.
A as consequence I "improved" the defn of @content@.
John Abbott

09 Mar 2012

16:17 Bug #102 (Closed): Packages: should exported functions be automatically "Protect"ed?
If Package @$aaa@ exports a function @Foo@, then @Foo@ cannot be exported by another Package @$bbb@.
And that's safe...
Anna Maria Bigatti
11:02 Feature #101: rethrow in Try .. UponError .. EndTry
Giovanni Lagorio wrote:
> (the error object contains the error message only, more information should be embedded ther...
Anna Maria Bigatti

08 Mar 2012

15:49 Feature #101: rethrow in Try .. UponError .. EndTry
I'm afraid that information is lost at the moment (the error object contains the error message only, more information... Giovanni Lagorio
12:13 Feature #101 (New): rethrow in Try .. UponError .. EndTry
What is the way to deal with errors we don't want to catch?
See this example:...
Anna Maria Bigatti

07 Mar 2012

16:13 Bug #100 (New): BringIn should map only the indets in its arg
In C4 the function @BringIn@ maps only the indets which actually appear in the arg to be mapped. In C5, the currentl... John Abbott
15:32 Feature #90: Make the new fn CoefficientsWRT available in C5
Anna Maria Bigatti wrote:
> it would inefficient to write...
Yes, but I believe the run-time inefficiency would be ...
John Abbott
15:25 Slug #99 (Closed): Function "insert": obsolescent
As far as I can tell @Insert@ is never called by any function in the standard CoCoA packages.
I would like to make...
John Abbott

06 Mar 2012

12:24 Bug #98 (Closed): RealRoots should use IsRational
RealRoots incorrectly complains about non rational coeffs in cases like the following:... John Abbott
11:54 Bug #27: CoCoA-5 Manual
Some (many?) examples in the manual use multiplication by juxtaposition. These all need to be corrected so that cut-... John Abbott
 

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