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From 30 Dec 2016 to 28 Jan 2017
27 Jan 2017
- 15:59 Design #997: Using protected variable names for "bound variables" (e.g. for, try...endtry)
- Think about the following valid CoCoA-5 code:...
- 15:44 Design #997: Using protected variable names for "bound variables" (e.g. for, try...endtry)
- The following works:...
- 08:04 Design #997: Using protected variable names for "bound variables" (e.g. for, try...endtry)
- This, not surprisingly, doesn't work ;-)...
- 15:54 Feature #1003 (In Progress): New syntax for creating poly rings?
- I do not believe that there will be ambiguity: consider the expression *@OBJ[string]@*
* if *@OBJ@* is a record the... - 07:42 Feature #1003: New syntax for creating poly rings?
- Remember the syntax @NewPolyRing(QQ, "x,y,z");@. That's very expressive!
- 07:40 Feature #1003: New syntax for creating poly rings?
- Neat idea, but I think we would still have the ambiguity between:
@K["x"]@ and @F["factors"]@ for records (very usef... - 15:50 Support #1000: CoCoAManual for "all cocoa commands"
- Is it possible to make links/references from normal manual pages to/from the page about CoCoA commands?
I note that ... - 07:51 Support #1000: CoCoAManual for "all cocoa commands"
- (I thought I had already replied on this one, strange...)
As is (think of the pdf version), the manual only knows ... - 15:46 Feature #912: Add TUTORIALs to online manual
- Anna would you be willing to help me propel this issue forwards over the next month.
The minicourse will be on 27+28... - 07:53 Feature #912: Add TUTORIALs to online manual
- John Abbott wrote:
> Here is a proposal for how we could organize tutorials as manual pages in CoCoA-5.
> Tutorial ... - 08:05 Feature #996: New function: IdealOfGBasis
- Asking for approval: is this name ok?
26 Jan 2017
- 00:49 Feature #1003: New syntax for creating poly rings?
- One problem it does not solve is how to write something like @QQ[alpha]/(alpha^2-2)@ since we cannot create the ideal...
- 00:46 Feature #1003: New syntax for creating poly rings?
- Some advantages are:
* do not need operator *@::=@* to introduce special syntax (valid only in a special context)
*... - 00:40 Feature #1003 (In Progress): New syntax for creating poly rings?
- Here is an idea which could make creating poly rings a "normal case" rather than a "special case".
Instead of havi...
25 Jan 2017
- 08:35 Design #998: Emacs UI: sending empty input from cocoa5 buffer
- John Abbott wrote:
> I reiterate my suggestion to make @cocoa5-send-line@ send nothing to CoCoA-5 if the line it is ...
24 Jan 2017
- 21:12 Bug #1002: Emacs UI: cocoa5-send-line skips too many chars
- The following file will give different results (but no errors) if you read the whole file in one go, or send the file...
- 19:55 Bug #1002: Emacs UI: cocoa5-send-line skips too many chars
- I think Anna might like to skip over minus signs since she sometimes uses a line of minus signs to separate sections ...
- 19:31 Bug #1002: Emacs UI: cocoa5-send-line skips too many chars
- This leads naturally to the question: which chars do we want to skip over?
At least: Newline, space and tab.
Anyt... - 19:25 Bug #1002 (In Progress): Emacs UI: cocoa5-send-line skips too many chars
- The problem lies in the "mysterious" regexp given to @skip-chars-forward@.
Currently the regexp is *@"-*\n-*"@* but ... - 19:21 Bug #1002: Emacs UI: cocoa5-send-line skips too many chars
- Here is an example:...
- 19:19 Bug #1002 (Closed): Emacs UI: cocoa5-send-line skips too many chars
- While trying to understand how @cocoa5-send-line@ works, I discovered that it can skip too far forwards sometimes.
... - 19:35 Design #998: Emacs UI: sending empty input from cocoa5 buffer
- I reiterate my suggestion to make @cocoa5-send-line@ send nothing to CoCoA-5 if the line it is on contains only white...
- 18:56 Design #998: Emacs UI: sending empty input from cocoa5 buffer
- Another possibility is to make @cocoa5-send-line@ insert a newline into the buffer if the line (is non-empty and) doe...
- 08:27 Design #998: Emacs UI: sending empty input from cocoa5 buffer
- John Abbott wrote:
> Here is another example:
> [...]
> where the last line does not have a "newline" at the end.
...
23 Jan 2017
- 19:11 Design #998 (In Progress): Emacs UI: sending empty input from cocoa5 buffer
- Here is another example:...
19 Jan 2017
- 14:44 Support #1000: CoCoAManual for "all cocoa commands"
- This is issue 1000! What a shame it is such a boring matter... well, I suppose most of the issues are rather dull :-/
- 12:55 Support #1000: CoCoAManual for "all cocoa commands"
- Here are some commands which do not appear in the list:...
- 12:53 Support #1000 (Closed): CoCoAManual for "all cocoa commands"
- Which commands should appear in the list produced when asking the manual for *@all cocoa commands@*?
At the moment... - 12:51 Feature #912: Add TUTORIALs to online manual
- Now that I have a CoCoA minicourse planned for late February, it is a good time to reactivate this task.. but how to ...
18 Jan 2017
- 17:30 Design #998: Emacs UI: sending empty input from cocoa5 buffer
- Consider a buffer containing the following:...
- 17:22 Design #998 (Closed): Emacs UI: sending empty input from cocoa5 buffer
- What should the correct behaviour be when sending "empty input" to CoCoA-5 from a @cocoa5-mode@ buffer in Emacs.
C... - 17:17 Bug #945 (In Progress): Emacs UI: comint buffer silently truncates(?) long lines when sending
- 13:03 Design #997 (In Progress): Using protected variable names for "bound variables" (e.g. for, try...endtry)
- I note also that "protected names" are allowed as formal parameters for user defined fns: _e.g._ the following works ...
- 11:44 Design #997: Using protected variable names for "bound variables" (e.g. for, try...endtry)
- The following example does nothing embarrassing:...
- 11:38 Design #997 (Closed): Using protected variable names for "bound variables" (e.g. for, try...endtry)
- I was surprised the following did not produce any error about protected variables:...
12 Jan 2017
- 17:11 Feature #996 (Closed): New function: IdealOfGBasis
- Consider this case...
11 Jan 2017
- 13:24 Bug #995 (Resolved): LaTeX(x^10) should use curly brackets
- I think it is enough to change @latex.cpkg5:30@ from @L[I] > 10@ to @L[I] > 9@.
Will check in asap.
- 13:23 Bug #995 (Closed): LaTeX(x^10) should use curly brackets
- The latex package handles exponents equal to 10 wrongly: it does not put the exponent in curly brackets.
Fix @late...
10 Jan 2017
- 19:43 Bug #994: SEGV: Toric example from Kazuki Maeda
- reduced to...
09 Jan 2017
- 17:34 Bug #994: SEGV: Toric example from Kazuki Maeda
- investigating.
On my Mac 33. - 13:36 Bug #994: SEGV: Toric example from Kazuki Maeda
- I'm trying to compile CoCoA-5.1.5 on my netbook (after a clean reinstall of the system).
To my surprise BOOST inst... - 13:32 Bug #994: SEGV: Toric example from Kazuki Maeda
- JAA has confirmed the bug (using current internal CVS version).
Marked as urgent because it triggers SEGV, and we ... - 13:28 Bug #994 (Closed): SEGV: Toric example from Kazuki Maeda
- 2017 is starting well... :-/
Kazuke Maeda reports the following SEGV problem:
The following repeated computation ...
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