CoCoA » CoCoA-5

26 Jun 2014

15:33 Design #576 (Closed): Disallow juxtaposition for string literals?

If there were any serious problems, they'd have come to light by now (almost 24 hours of testing!)
Closing.
John Abbott

12:27 Design #576: Disallow juxtaposition for string literals?

> All in all, it really does seem to be a "useless" feature...
and was not in CoCoA-4. It's a pointless exception.
Anna Maria Bigatti

12:12 Design #576: Disallow juxtaposition for string literals?

Here is a possible reason for wanting to allow juxtaposition of strings: if an input includes a very long string lite... John Abbott

15:14 Support #548: Printing rings with ID

How will rings be printed in resolutions?
I recall that CoCoA used a syntax like @ring#7@; we could do this (but i... John Abbott

15:11 Bug #182 (Closed): Unescaped double quote inside superstring

This bug essentially vanished when we abolished multiline string literals.
Now that juxtaposed strings literals ar... John Abbott

12:06 Bug #182: Unescaped double quote inside superstring

I have (temporarily?) disabled recognition of juxtaposed strings. The resulting behaviour on the example input is:
... John Abbott

12:03 Feature #464: Emacs UI: split horizontally instead of vertically?

OK for a menu flag which indicates the preferred way of splitting.
Some while ago I added to @cocoa5.el@ the fn @c... John Abbott

08:24 Feature #464: Emacs UI: split horizontally instead of vertically?

Apparently (on Aquamacs) it splits horizontally or vertically depending on the width of the window. That may be conf... Anna Maria Bigatti

08:18 Support #559: Release: CoCoA-5.1.0

Almost all done. still missing: gui on windows
Anna Maria Bigatti

25 Jun 2014

19:16 Design #576: Disallow juxtaposition for string literals?

I tried; it compiled and all tests pass. Will test more tomorrow, and then check in.
John Abbott

17:04 Design #576 (In Progress): Disallow juxtaposition for string literals?

I believe the relevant source is in @Parser.C@ lines 2095-2103 inclusive.
I'll try commenting out, and see if everyt... John Abbott

16:50 Design #576: Disallow juxtaposition for string literals?

> Can we remove this "feature? What was the original reason for wanting this?
The original reason was to allow it ... Anna Maria Bigatti

15:01 Design #576 (Closed): Disallow juxtaposition for string literals?

Currently CoCoA-5 accepts juxtaposed string literals (_i.e._ separated by nothing or white space).
Can we remove t... John Abbott

15:50 Bug #164 (Feedback): CoCoA-5 emacs interface bug (minor): Source & SourceRegion with troublesome filenames

I have modified @cocoa5.el@ to add escapes for @"@ and newlines inside filenames.
A quick test showed that it works a... John Abbott

13:14 Support #548: Printing rings with ID

The name @RingWithID@ is longer than I would like; I originally suggested @ring(3)@ but that is not so clear. Maybe ... John Abbott

13:09 Support #548: Printing rings with ID

If we go with the idea of printing simply @RingWithID(...)@ then I presume the @describe@ command should fully descri... John Abbott

12:52 Bug #182 (In Progress): Unescaped double quote inside superstring

If I recall correctly, we abolished "superstrings" in CoCoA-5.1. So the problem is no longer relevant. In any case,... John Abbott

24 Jun 2014

10:36 Bug #279: Bug in Radical (actually a RingHom problem)

Here is an excerpt from CoCoA (this morning, 20140624)... John Abbott

30 May 2014

09:16 Design #567 (Feedback): Emacs UI: coloured syntax in output buffer has problems if error message shows a single double-quote

Easy when you know where, more difficult to find *where*.
Done.
I had to change @ErrorReporter::ErrorPrefix("--> ... Anna Maria Bigatti

29 May 2014

17:11 Design #567: Emacs UI: coloured syntax in output buffer has problems if error message shows a single double-quote

first step done (in Lexer.C) Anna Maria Bigatti

17:09 Design #567 (In Progress): Emacs UI: coloured syntax in output buffer has problems if error message shows a single double-quote

Let's try the proposal. As it is a "trick", it should be well documented. John Abbott

16:39 Design #567: Emacs UI: coloured syntax in output buffer has problems if error message shows a single double-quote

maybe error messages should be printed... Anna Maria Bigatti

16:37 Design #567 (Closed): Emacs UI: coloured syntax in output buffer has problems if error message shows a single double-quote

consider this... Anna Maria Bigatti

17:04 Support #541: Unify releases for Linux 32 and Linux 64

Apparently emacs + script does not work on some linux machine (Oscar's).
Script works fine inside a normal shell, but... Anna Maria Bigatti

14:39 Bug #566 (Resolved): Online help: problem with "<>"

I'm sure this didn't work just a few days ago; but when I tried it yesterday, everything behaved correctly (but I don... John Abbott