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From 10 Nov 2020 to 09 Dec 2020
09 Dec 2020
- 08:54 Design #1546: Improve 'describe' or 'print' for a function
- Anna Maria Bigatti wrote:
> Julian Danner wrote:
> > sadly CoCoA does not offer a (nice) way to save objects (rings... - 08:03 Design #1546: Improve 'describe' or 'print' for a function
- Julian Danner wrote:
> sadly CoCoA does not offer a (nice) way to save objects (rings, polys, lists,...) in such a w...
08 Dec 2020
- 14:29 Support #1548 (New): Man page for UniversalGBasis
- The manual page for @UniversalGBasis@ could be clearer.
Improve it!
07 Dec 2020
- 16:17 Design #1546: Improve 'describe' or 'print' for a function
- I have had a (not so) quick look at the code involved.
*@describe@* like all CoCoA commands returns no value, and th...
04 Dec 2020
- 12:53 Design #1546 (Closed): Improve 'describe' or 'print' for a function
- Hi,
sadly CoCoA does not offer a (nice) way to save objects (rings, polys, lists,...) in such a way that they can be... - 11:57 Design #1545 (New): CoeffOfTerm: in CoCoALibSupplement
- Maybe improve impl of @CoeffOfTermSparse@ in @CoCoALibSupplement.C@ around line 151?
See commented out "improved" ... - 10:26 Feature #1543 (Feedback): Default path for packages
- Done and tested. cvs-ed.
- 09:40 Feature #1543: Default path for packages
- Main.C L279
- 09:37 Feature #1543: Default path for packages
- This is for running CoCoAInterpreter in terminal, when it is saved in the bin/ directory.
This happens (at least) ... - 09:31 Feature #1543 (Closed): Default path for packages
- Now CoCoAInterpreter look for packages (if not specified) in its own directory. Add also the path "../"
- 09:51 Design #1544: CoCoA coding conventions for parser/interprer?
- I've done it for *@defaultPackageDir@* which is now *@IsDefaultPackageDir@*.
I find it easier, and that's the reason... - 09:47 Design #1544 (New): CoCoA coding conventions for parser/interprer?
- Should we (slowly?) adapt parser/interpreter/main to our coding conventions?
03 Dec 2020
- 21:31 Bug #1514 (Closed): Cocoa crashes when calling RingElems
- I now have a personal CoCoA version with the new @MemPool@ code (see issue #1522 comment 10).
I have just tried the ...
01 Dec 2020
- 14:03 Feature #1541: foreach with ref to list entry?
- If we choose to extend CoCoA-5, there are 2 obvious approaches:
* modify @foreach@ so that it uses references --- ob... - 13:58 Feature #1541 (New): foreach with ref to list entry?
- Julian Danner asks whether it would be possible to have a version of @foreach@ which operates on a reference to the l...
- 12:13 Support #1298: How can user find the indent command?
- I am tempted to remove the example of using @indent@ with 2 args: it occupies a lot of vertical space, but conveys li...
- 12:08 Support #1298: How can user find the indent command?
- Maybe this should be a new issue? I was surprised at what @indent@ did when given a module:...
26 Nov 2020
- 16:33 Support #322: Installation instructions (on website)
- I must check what happens for old MacOS
- 16:24 Bug #1537: EmacUI: strange colours, sometimes
- John Abbott wrote:
> A possible way to address the problem is to discourage users from typing *@/-@* by making it is... - 16:20 Feature #1536: Implement xel?
- Anna will impl in CoCoAlib, and then make accessible to CoCoA-5.
- 16:06 Feature #1536: Implement xel?
- One difference between @QQ[x,y,z],xel@ and @QQ[z,y,x],lex@ is that the order in which the idents are printed is diffe...
- 14:37 Feature #1536 (In Progress): Implement xel?
- Very good reasoning.
Indeed some researchers have opposite standards, calling lex (and degrevlex) what we call xel (... - 15:52 Feature #1535: New functions: argmin, argmax
- I like the idea. We need another mane for the funzion with indices.
23 Nov 2020
- 10:18 Design #1520 (Feedback): Replace BOOST_FOREACH by new C++14 range for syntax
- I have checked in my changes. Let's hope everything works fine!
20 Nov 2020
- 15:04 Design #1520: Replace BOOST_FOREACH by new C++14 range for syntax
- We still need to see where the new the @for@ syntax can be used in cocoalib -- that is issue #1346.
Maybe I should... - 15:01 Design #1520 (Resolved): Replace BOOST_FOREACH by new C++14 range for syntax
- I think I have done most of the code in @src/CoCoA-5@.
It compiles and the CoCoA-5 tests all pass.
I made the chang... - 14:11 Design #1540: Double power
- I would like to maintain reasonable compatibility between the way CoCoA-5 parses expressions and the way @RingElem@ o...
- 13:35 Feature #500: Interpreter: is it possible to avoid useless prompts?
- Apparently the ability to suppress prompts could be useful for the ApCoCoA interface.
For that application, it wou... - 11:36 Bug #1539 (Feedback): Website: installation instructions for Microsoft
- 11:35 Bug #1539: Website: installation instructions for Microsoft
- fixed
- 11:27 Bug #1539: Website: installation instructions for Microsoft
- What was nice was that Bernhard wrote "shouldn't cocoa-5.2 be cocoa-5.2?"
So even bug reporters can make typos ;-)
- 08:56 Design #1530: VersionInfo -- better field names?
- Done.
I added "Boost" only in BuiltinFunctions.C.
I have also the code for adding it in ExternalLibs.C (commented o...
17 Nov 2020
- 22:33 Support #322: Installation instructions (on website)
- Last week a student came with some problems with making CoCoA work on her MacBook; most of these are dealt with elsew...
- 20:31 Bug #1537: EmacUI: strange colours, sometimes
- A possible way to address the problem is to discourage users from typing *@/-@* by making it issue a warning.
As a... - 20:26 Bug #1537: EmacUI: strange colours, sometimes
- This is probably not solvable :-(
I changed the emacs syntax declaration for "minus" into just a plain "." (punctu... - 20:11 Bug #1537: EmacUI: strange colours, sometimes
- Here is some doc about emacs;...
- 20:02 Bug #1537: EmacUI: strange colours, sometimes
- Around line 335 in @cocoa5.el@ there is this...
- 19:48 Bug #1537: EmacUI: strange colours, sometimes
- As far as I can tell the following "digraphs" are recognized as starting a comment:
slash-star, slash-slash, slash-m... - 13:49 Bug #1537 (In Progress): EmacUI: strange colours, sometimes
- I have tried a few tests. slash-minus seems to be recognised as a comment start; I have tried slash-char where char w...
- 13:19 Design #1540 (In Progress): Double power
- If we do look at handling exponents, it might be nice to improve the error mesg when a negative exponent is given wit...
16 Nov 2020
- 18:07 Design #1540: Double power
- I think CoCoA should give a warning or even an error. Currently, it gives neither!
On my computer I got *@x^8@*
... - 18:05 Design #1540 (Closed): Double power
- What do you think CoCoA does with the following input?...
- 09:43 Bug #1539 (Closed): Website: installation instructions for Microsoft
- The installation instructions for Microsoft refer to the directory *@C:\cocoa-5.2\emacs@* instead of *@C:\cocoa-5.3\e...
13 Nov 2020
- 16:00 Design #1530: VersionInfo -- better field names?
- *Anna will do the following*
(1) move the info about BOOST into the subrecord @ExternalLibs@ (_i.e._ added to the li... - 14:34 Design #1530: VersionInfo -- better field names?
- and add Boost into the ExternalLibs record
- 15:48 Support #1534 (In Progress): Install CoCoA-5 on MacOS-10.15+
- Anna could you do the following on your old MacBook:
(1) download the official distrib
(2) follow the instructions ... - 14:26 Support #1534: Install CoCoA-5 on MacOS-10.15+
- I have had trouble installing CoCoA-5 from our website on my old mac.
- 14:48 Bug #1537 (Closed): EmacUI: strange colours, sometimes
- ...
- 11:23 Feature #1536: Implement xel?
- The matter was raised by Bernhard Andraschko. His argument is below:...
- 11:19 Feature #1536 (Closed): Implement xel?
- At the moment CoCoA-5 does not recognise the keyword @xel@ for specifying a term order when defining a new ring.
I...
12 Nov 2020
- 13:47 Feature #1535: New functions: argmin, argmax
- Here is a little background/motivation.
I demoed to the students how one can impl in CoCoA-5 the algm to compute a m...
11 Nov 2020
- 15:11 Feature #1535: New functions: argmin, argmax
- I clearly prefer @argmin@, since its easier to type and lower-case is also more common in mathematics, but (as for ma...
- 11:25 Feature #1535: New functions: argmin, argmax
- What should the names be?
In most contexts they are written @argmin@ (or maybe @arg min@ with a space).
Should be u... - 11:23 Feature #1535: New functions: argmin, argmax
- Should this actually be in CoCoALib?
Might it be handy to have a version which returns the index (or indices) of t... - 11:20 Feature #1535 (In Progress): New functions: argmin, argmax
- Here is a first prototype in CoCoA-5...
- 11:14 Feature #1535 (In Progress): New functions: argmin, argmax
- Proposal:
create new functions @argmin@ and @argmax@ which operate on lists.
The idea is that they return an/all ...
10 Nov 2020
- 19:57 Support #1534 (In Progress): Install CoCoA-5 on MacOS-10.15+
- Review the instructions for installing CoCoA-5.3 on MacOS.
Unfortunately it seems that an administrator account an... - 14:07 Bug #1531 (Feedback): CRASH: arithmetic with HilbertSeries (tagged object)
- 13:58 Design #1530 (In Progress): VersionInfo -- better field names?
- I suggest for the "Num bits" fields to the names *@NumBits_MachineInt@*, *@NumBits_MachineLong@* and *@NumBits_Small...
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