CoCoA » CoCoA-5

25 Aug 2016

17:42 Support #916 (New): use command: unhelpful error if you use := instead of ::=

Here is an excerpt from a CoCoA session containing a "typo" (OK, it's 33 degrees here, and I wasn't concentrating)
<... John Abbott

22 Aug 2016

16:42 Support #915: When is a semicolon needed to end a statement/command?

This question came to me as I was writing the tutorials for CoCoA-5. I actually thought that the final semicolon was... John Abbott

16:06 Feature #912: Add TUTORIALs to online manual

As a "proof of concept" I have written and checked in two tutorial pages: 0 (ciao) and 1 (manual).
I'll see what Ann... John Abbott

16:05 Feature #912 (In Progress): Add TUTORIALs to online manual

Here is a proposal for how we could organize tutorials as manual pages in CoCoA-5.
Tutorial Content
0 ... John Abbott

20 Aug 2016

22:04 Support #915 (New): When is a semicolon needed to end a statement/command?

Some commands do not need a semicolon to make them happen.... John Abbott

02 Aug 2016

10:53 Feature #912 (In Progress): Add TUTORIALs to online manual

Add pages to built-in online manual to cover basics for (re)learning CoCoA-5.
John Abbott

27 Jul 2016

17:35 Support #911 (In Progress): CoCoA-5 prompt for incomplete input

The printed prompt is actually made of 3 parts:
* the type of the last unclosed block (or empty if none)
* the cont... John Abbott

17:13 Support #911: CoCoA-5 prompt for incomplete input

The relevant code seems to be in @LineProviders.C:79--85@.
There are separate "continuation prompts" for 3 context... John Abbott

17:07 Support #911 (Closed): CoCoA-5 prompt for incomplete input

Werner reported a strange problem with CoCoA-5 saying that a result was too large to be printed.
It turns out that... John Abbott