Activity
From 15 Apr 2012 to 14 May 2012
14 May 2012
- 15:03 Bug #110: Surprise return type for GCD of a list of ints
- Anna thinks she can fix the reading of homogeneous lists; she will look into it in the next few days.
- 14:06 Bug #110: Surprise return type for GCD of a list of ints
- JAA thinks that introducing a separate name for the function for computing GCD of integers is a *bad* idea because it...
- 12:23 Bug #110: Surprise return type for GCD of a list of ints
- JAA proposes that reading of homogeneous lists have three possible return types:
* list of @INT@
* list of @RAT@
*... - 12:14 Bug #110: Surprise return type for GCD of a list of ints
- Today some students passed with a CoCoA-5 problem which derived from the unexpected return type of *@gcd@* applied to...
- 14:45 Bug #158 (Closed): May AsRAT produce an INT?
- What type should the result of *@AsRAT(3)@* have?
At the moment @AsRAT@ returns an *@INT@* if its arg is of type *...
02 May 2012
- 18:07 Bug #148 (In Progress): C-c C-p in emacs goes to wrong line
- In emacs when an error occurs running code sent via C-c C-f (effectively "source") the user can use C-c C-p to go to ...
24 Apr 2012
- 15:35 Bug #137: JAA does not like the name IndetInd
- If we change to "subscript" instead of index then we must change the name of the "index" field in the result of @Inde...
- 15:28 Bug #137 (Closed): JAA does not like the name IndetInd
- C5 inherited from C4 the name @IndetInd@. It is the function which produces a list of "indices" from a indet, _e.g._...
23 Apr 2012
- 16:55 Feature #133: Qt GUI: Make better distinction between input and output in the output window
- Robbiano confirmed that the blank lines and prompts are a new "feature" of the C5 GUI produced recently by Abbott -- ...
- 16:52 Feature #136 (New): GUI: Add an edit menu to the top bar (CoCoA GUI on MacOS)
- Mac users expect to find drop down menus on the top menu bar.
CoCoA GUI offers no such menu for editing commands (su...
19 Apr 2012
- 17:02 Feature #133 (New): Qt GUI: Make better distinction between input and output in the output window
- The following input:...
18 Apr 2012
- 22:10 Bug #38: GUI: open file "with C5"
- I sometimes have a similar problem with Firefox: if I double click on a @*.html@ file and Firefox was not already run...
- 22:01 Bug #94: Default reason for protected variables
- After trying some possibilities, my preference is now for the reason to appear in brackets, like this:...
- 17:04 Bug #94: Default reason for protected variables
- I suggest the following format for the error message:...
- 16:52 Bug #102: Packages: should exported functions be automatically "Protect"ed?
- I agree that names exported from packages should be protected (probably with the reason being that it was exported fr...
- 16:31 Bug #103 (Closed): Bad error mesg using operator ":"
- Corrected erroneous actual parameters in a call in @ColonExpression:implEval@ in file @Interpreter.C@.
I simply co... - 15:58 Feature #131: Conversion from bool to INT
- We cannot use the Iverson bracket syntax directly because it already has a meaning: @[N>0]@ will produce a list conta...
- 15:46 Feature #131: Conversion from bool to INT
- Re Automatic conversion:
* Advantages: no need to choose a name, compactness
* Disadvantages: possible ambiguity, uns... - 14:56 Bug #100: BringIn should map only the indets in its arg
- JAA suggests that @BringIn@ should be simple rather than "clever". For instance it should give an error in the follo...
17 Apr 2012
- 21:21 Bug #118: unistd and call to access in Main.C
- Increased priority to "high".
Waiting for Anna's return to discuss the correctness/usefulness of allowing CoCoA-5 ... - 21:10 Bug #132 (Closed): BringIn should allow reduction modulo p
- Currently @BringIn@ does not allow one to move from char 0 to char non-zero....
16 Apr 2012
- 16:36 Feature #131 (Closed): Conversion from bool to INT
- Alessio would like a conversion from {false,true} to {0,1}.
Wikipedia mentions a function called "Iverson bracket" w...
15 Apr 2012
- 21:31 Bug #52 (Closed): GUI: problem with "--" comment
- Fixed.
*BUT* there remains a more subtle problem: the way the GUI determines the state of the parser appears to be...
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