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From 04 May 2012 to 02 Jun 2012
02 Jun 2012
- 23:21 Bug #118: unistd and call to access in Main.C
- John Abbott wrote:
> Waiting for Anna's return to discuss the correctness/usefulness of allowing CoCoA-5 to run if t... - 22:54 Bug #117: Added 3 times defn of isblank fn
- John Abbott wrote:
> Maybe put @IsBlank@ into a file called *@C5utils@*?
> What do you think? Perhaps a few other fn...
01 Jun 2012
- 23:44 Bug #117: Added 3 times defn of isblank fn
- Maybe put @IsBlank@ into a file called *@C5utils@*?
What do you think? Perhaps a few other fns could be moved there... - 23:42 Bug #118: unistd and call to access in Main.C
- Anna could you reply to my question in post 5?
I think it should be an error to start CoCoA without the packages. ... - 23:33 Bug #148: C-c C-p in emacs goes to wrong line
- NOTE the fn is called *@pop-to-buffer-cocoa5-source-find-error@*.
And also *@pop-to-buffer-cocoa5-source-find-X@*
... - 23:18 Bug #171: Negate LIST, MAT,...
- If *@N*X@* is valid (for @N@ integer, and @X@ of some type) then it makes perfect sense that @-X@ should be equivalen...
- 18:09 Support #177 (In Progress): CoCoAManual: General part of the documentation is obsolete: update? discard?
- A decision should be made about the general part of the documentation.
Probably we should reduce it considerably, ... - 18:05 Support #176 (Closed): CoCoAManual: Doc for new commands
- CoCoA-5 already offers a big collection of new functions and commands
(mainly listed in http://cocoa.dima.unige.it/c... - 17:59 Bug #27 (Closed): CoCoA-5 Manual
- I close this issue related with Elisa Fascio's work about reading and fixing all the "command" entries.
Still to d... - 17:47 Feature #175 (In Progress): Approximate BuchbergerMoeller: port to CoCoA-5
- It was available in CoCoA-4 through CoCoAServer.
What syntax should it offer? Probably the same as CoCoA-4.
- 17:41 Feature #173 (Rejected): Anonymous symbols: should they be available in CoCoA-5?
- Latest addition in CoCoALib could also be useful in CoCoA-5...
but since @symbol@ is not a type in CoCoA-5 that coul... - 17:36 Feature #172 (Closed): add customization for --fullCoCoALibError in EmacsUI
- --fullCoCoALibError is a flag for CoCoAInterpreter.
When active any error gives the full description for CoCoALib de...
31 May 2012
- 18:58 Bug #159: Multiplicity sometimes wrong
- Add also Dim&Mult for non-standard degree (or no degree, such as with @Lex@)
They are defined independently of the gr... - 18:01 Bug #171 (New): Negate LIST, MAT,...
- Negation ("-") is undefined for X, a list or matrix (and what else???)
However (-1)*X is allowed.
Should we defin...
30 May 2012
- 16:40 Bug #158 (Closed): May AsRAT produce an INT?
- Done everything.
- 16:14 Bug #163 (Closed): RealRootsApprox bombs
- I've contined to use *@RealRootsApprox@* intensively, and no further problems have come to light. So I'm closing thi...
- 16:08 Feature #7: Automatic mapping between (some) rings
- It would be handy to have a similar shortcut for homogeneous lists.
Also for ideals, but that raises the same questi... - 13:09 Feature #7: Automatic mapping between (some) rings
- Proposal for new "constructors": @R@ ring, @A@ matrix, @x@ ringelem (or powerproduct or ...), ... and what else?
*@M...
28 May 2012
- 11:57 Bug #110 (Closed): Surprise return type for GCD of a list of ints
- Implemented *@IsTrueGCDDomain@*; the main cost was sorting out the consequential changes. Eliminated @ERR::NotGCDDom...
25 May 2012
- 15:13 Bug #170 (Closed): CoCoAManual HTML: page for "Try"
- I was not able to find the manual page for *@Try@* using the HTML version of the CoCoA-5 manual. I clicked on the "s...
- 14:23 Support #169 (Closed): Font for parameters in manual
- Often the description in the CoCoA manual refers to the formal parameters by name.
Should these names be put in a sp... - 14:20 Design #168 (Closed): Type info in CoCoA-5 manual
- The manual entries in CoCoAHelp.xml include a collection of the types involved.
What convention should be used for t... - 14:17 Feature #131 (Closed): Conversion from bool to INT
- Implemented *@Bool01@* in the package @NotBuiltin.cpkg5@.
The fn *@Error@* (with capital @E@) is now built-in rather... - 11:41 Feature #131 (In Progress): Conversion from bool to INT
- After speaking to Anna about the various possibilities, she convinced me that the simplest approach is best (at least...
24 May 2012
23 May 2012
21 May 2012
- 17:27 Bug #137: JAA does not like the name IndetInd
- JAA talked to Anna. She liked @subscript@ and will implement.
- 15:54 Feature #131: Conversion from bool to INT
- I don't like an automatic conversion.
We could write a conversion function *Bool01* (the shortest name I could think... - 11:48 Feature #131: Conversion from bool to INT
- Though I didn't say so explicitly previously, I believe that a truly *automatic* conversion from @BOOL@ to @INT@ is l...
20 May 2012
- 13:28 Bug #163 (Resolved): RealRootsApprox bombs
- I've modified RealRoots, and it seems to work now.
What puzzles me is that the bug came to light only today, even ... - 12:41 Bug #163: RealRootsApprox bombs
- Added a new C5 test file.
The RealRoots code is rather messy; I suppose it should be rewritten in C++. Any volunt... - 11:30 Bug #163: RealRootsApprox bombs
- The example I gave contains @FStar@ instead of @F@.
The bug is simply an unwarranted error; JAA does not believe the... - 11:06 Bug #163 (Closed): RealRootsApprox bombs
- The following lines produce an *@ERR::SERIOUS@* on my installation...
- 11:25 Bug #164 (Closed): CoCoA-5 emacs interface bug (minor): Source & SourceRegion with troublesome filenames
- By accident I created a filename containing a newline.
Sending the file to CoCoA-5 in emacs (by C-c C-f) produced th...
17 May 2012
- 21:41 Bug #110: Surprise return type for GCD of a list of ints
- Anna Maria Bigatti wrote:
> So the best is *@IsTrueGCDDomain@* it is the shortest of the type @Is***GCDDomain@ (and ... - 18:32 Bug #110: Surprise return type for GCD of a list of ints
- > Almost all our suggestions are rather long; perhaps this does not matter so much? Maybe we should just choose one,...
- 18:12 Bug #110: Surprise return type for GCD of a list of ints
- Anna Maria Bigatti wrote:
> Another suggestion: *IsValidGCDDomain* (by L.Robbiano)
I'm not very convinced; I'd... - 17:33 Bug #110: Surprise return type for GCD of a list of ints
- John Abbott wrote:
> However, if we regard fields as not "gcd domains" then what name should be use to mean "gcd doma... - 18:38 Bug #162 (Closed): RegularityIndex <= 0
- RegularityIndex is not complete/correct...
16 May 2012
- 18:20 Bug #110: Surprise return type for GCD of a list of ints
- JAA believes that *@myGcdInField@* was created for the following reason.
In CoCoALib fields satisfy *@IsGCDDomain@... - 16:15 Bug #110: Surprise return type for GCD of a list of ints
- > JAA thinks that
> *we can compute GCDs between values of type @RAT@*
> should be equivalent to
> *we can compute GC... - 15:36 Bug #110: Surprise return type for GCD of a list of ints
- JAA thinks that
> *we can compute GCDs between values of type @RAT@*
should be equivalent to
> *we can compute... - 15:31 Bug #110: Surprise return type for GCD of a list of ints
- There is one other imstance where @myGCDInField@ is called.
*@ex-RingElem1@* attempts to compute a GCD in a field (a... - 15:01 Bug #110: Surprise return type for GCD of a list of ints
- JAA modified @RingBase::myGcdInField@ to give error rather than produce a result of 0/1. All CoCoALib tests passed, ...
15 May 2012
- 22:51 Bug #159 (Resolved): Multiplicity sometimes wrong
- 19:54 Bug #159 (Closed): Multiplicity sometimes wrong
- It seems to work OK for monomial ideals, but......
- 22:10 Bug #158: May AsRAT produce an INT?
- JAA cannot find the manual page for *@AsRAT@* (ditto *@AsINT@*).
The only occurrence in @CoCoAHelp.xml@ is in a @<s... - 21:13 Bug #158 (Resolved): May AsRAT produce an INT?
- JAA has checked in the modified defn of *@AsRAT@*.
The question of the names of @AsRAT@ and @IsRational@ remains o... - 17:41 Bug #158: May AsRAT produce an INT?
- John Abbott wrote:
> It seems reasonable to me that *@AsRAT@* give either error or a @RAT@ as result -- after all it ... - 15:16 Bug #158: May AsRAT produce an INT?
- JAA has modified the defn of *@AsRAT@* so that it returns a @RAT@ even if the arg given was an @INT@. All the CoCoA-...
- 15:04 Bug #158: May AsRAT produce an INT?
- JAA was wondering how to convert a value of type @INT@ into the equivalent value of type @RAT@. Recall that arithmet...
- 14:56 Bug #158: May AsRAT produce an INT?
- *@AsRAT@* is defined at lines 31--39 of the file @NotBuiltin.cpkg5@.
[updating the defn should be pretty easy]
*B... - 14:51 Bug #158: May AsRAT produce an INT?
- It seems reasonable to me that *@AsRAT@* give either error or a @RAT@ as result -- after all it is a sort of "cast". ...
- 16:52 Bug #110: Surprise return type for GCD of a list of ints
- In CoCoALib we have the function @myGcdInField@, so we can compute gcd of elements in RingQQ. So, what shouldwe do i...
- 16:17 Bug #110: Surprise return type for GCD of a list of ints
- The code now works: *@type(gcd([2,3,4])@* is of type @INT@.
Also @lcm@ has been fixed accordingly.
It does not se... - 15:32 Bug #110 (Resolved): Surprise return type for GCD of a list of ints
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 *...
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