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From 12 Apr 2015 to 11 May 2015

11 May 2015

14:43 Bug #697 (Closed): Interpreter: Avoid outputting an empty line after each line of input
CoCoA-5 prints an empty line after each input line which outputs nothing.
Might be related to the fact that standa...
John Abbott

08 May 2015

13:32 Feature #622 (In Progress): New function: RandomSubset
Following CoCoALib conventions the return type should be @vector<long>@.
What should the values in the vector be? ...
John Abbott
11:21 Feature #652: Flag to enable/disable printing of list of loaded packages
The excesive verbosity has arisen again: @Rank@ was exported from 2 packages (@BackwardCompatible@ and @obsolescent@)... John Abbott

04 May 2015

15:43 Support #692: Local variables hiding out ones at top level
In the example given I note that @x@ is actually a *protected* variable -- perhaps even more reason for a warning?
John Abbott
15:11 Support #692 (Rejected): Local variables hiding out ones at top level
In function definitions local variables hiding outer ones are signalled by a Warning.
At top level not. This might ...
Anna Maria Bigatti

24 Apr 2015

17:59 Feature #622: New function: RandomSubset
Let's start with just yours, for many reasons:
- it is simpler, as you said
- indeed that's also what I needed ;-)
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Anna Maria Bigatti
11:23 Feature #622: New function: RandomSubset
We could simply have both; that way the user can choose which is more convenient (or efficient).
If we do choose t...
John Abbott
11:20 Feature #622: New function: RandomSubset
I wanted a @RandomSubset@ function which generated a random subset of @1..n@ of cardinality @r@. I was surprised whe... John Abbott
11:34 Feature #531: Package protected variables should know which package protected them
I do find it annoying when CoCoA says that name @XYZ@ is a package-exported variable but then does not tell me which ... John Abbott

20 Apr 2015

11:17 Bug #684 (Closed): Emacs UI: wrong name after auto-inserting enddefine
As it works for me and for Anna, I'm closing the issue. The EmacsUI code really needs to be completely rewritten, bu... John Abbott
10:31 Bug #684: Emacs UI: wrong name after auto-inserting enddefine
It works for me. Anna Maria Bigatti

19 Apr 2015

20:47 Slug #687: Builtin fn makes unnecessary copy of arg
I ran the following test:... John Abbott
20:36 Slug #687 (Closed): Builtin fn makes unnecessary copy of arg
While testing/profiling @IndetsIn@ (defined in @BuiltinOneLiners.C@) I noticed that the arg was copied by the fn, mak... John Abbott

16 Apr 2015

22:39 Feature #652: Flag to enable/disable printing of list of loaded packages
JAA does not much like the current approach (variable @PkgOut@).
If a package provokes an error then the screen fill...
John Abbott
22:28 Feature #652: Flag to enable/disable printing of list of loaded packages
Now resets error counter before reading each package (@Main.C:289@). John Abbott

15 Apr 2015

20:13 Bug #684 (Resolved): Emacs UI: wrong name after auto-inserting enddefine
I think I have fixed it; not entirely sure because several Emacs Lisp fns do not work the way I expected them too (or... John Abbott
10:35 Bug #684: Emacs UI: wrong name after auto-inserting enddefine
Perhaps the naive reverse search can be replaced by a call to @cocoa5-last-unended-begin@ which should be intelligent... John Abbott

14 Apr 2015

18:36 Bug #684: Emacs UI: wrong name after auto-inserting enddefine
I confirm it is just based on a trivial search for "define" Anna Maria Bigatti
15:37 Bug #684 (Closed): Emacs UI: wrong name after auto-inserting enddefine
The following in complete code adds the wrong commented out name after doing @C-c C-e@ (calls @cocoa5-close-block@):
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John Abbott

13 Apr 2015

16:21 Feature #652: Flag to enable/disable printing of list of loaded packages
Not quite this topic, but very close. I made a "mistake" in a package file which produced an annoying "warning"; thi... John Abbott
15:43 Bug #275: Unhelpful error messages when SmallExponent_t is unsigned char.
I have just tried all tests with @SmallExponent_t@ set to @unsigned char@, and @myMaxComponentIndex@ set to 100 (inst... John Abbott
15:13 Bug #275: Unhelpful error messages when SmallExponent_t is unsigned char.
I have again encountered the problems (failing tests) with using @unsigned char@ for exponents. I wanted to use very... John Abbott
 

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