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From 11 Mar 2021 to 09 Apr 2021
05 Apr 2021
- 15:04 Feature #1587: Multiline string literals (again)
- If we do adopt the fn @ConcatStr@ and/or @ConcatStrNewline@ then maybe there should be a modified form of @fold@ whic...
- 13:09 Feature #1587: Multiline string literals (again)
- My original thought (that multiline string literals are not so dangerous if we have helpful prompts) is not so helpfu...
- 13:02 Feature #1587 (In Progress): Multiline string literals (again)
- As mentioned in #1431#note-9 I have made a first impl of @ConcatStr@, and the result is promising.
Would it make s... - 12:53 Feature #1431: Juxtaposition of string literals
- I have just looked at the source code (@Parser.C@ around lines 2135--2150); the old code for juxtaposed strings is st...
02 Apr 2021
- 11:24 Feature #1431 (In Progress): Juxtaposition of string literals
- A potential disadvantage of something like *@"abc"+"def"+"ghi"@* is that a naive impl will take quadratic time. I su...
- 11:24 Feature #1587: Multiline string literals (again)
- A possible motivation for wanting to allow multi-line strings is...
CoCoA is slow at reading polynomials with many t... - 11:06 Feature #1587: Multiline string literals (again)
- If we do not allow multi-line string literals, but we do allow concatenation in the parser then the example in the de...
- 10:59 Feature #1587 (Closed): Multiline string literals (again)
- Now that we have more comprehensible "context-sensitive" prompts, one of the reasons for wishing to avoid multi-line ...
- 10:38 Support #1287 (Feedback): Better err mesg for easy typo in ring definition
- Anna approved this change during discussions. The warning has been reworded:...
- 09:55 Support #1507 (Feedback): wordlist without OBSOLETE entries?
- Anna agrees with the proposal. Checked in.
- 09:54 Slug #1506 (Feedback): Remove XMLFileName from Main.C
- Anna agrees that the check seems to about something ancient, and should be disable/removed.
Currently comment out --... - 09:28 Support #1586 (In Progress): Profiling with clang
- pg does not work....
- 08:54 Design #1493 (Closed): Automatic ring mapping in assignment?
- John Abbott wrote:
> I have revised the manual entry for @matrix@. I did note that in the examples @mat@ is used ra...
19 Mar 2021
- 15:47 Bug #1406: Poor memory management?
- This is what @valgrind@ produced:...
- 14:46 Bug #1406: Poor memory management?
- Here is a concrete example... a bit faster, but still sufficient to exhibit the problem....
- 15:38 Support #1287: Better err mesg for easy typo in ring definition
- I have just modified the parser to print out a warning:...
- 15:28 Support #1507 (Resolved): wordlist without OBSOLETE entries?
- I have simply sent the output of @PrintWordList@ through an @fgrep@ filter which skips lines containing @OBSOLE@ (mat...
- 15:17 Support #1507: wordlist without OBSOLETE entries?
- It should be easy to do this using @fgrep@ in the @Makefile@ rule which builds the file.
- 15:06 Feature #1431: Juxtaposition of string literals
- Another possible justification for wanting to re-allow string literal juxtaposition is that we now have a @fold@ func...
- 14:55 Slug #1506: Remove XMLFileName from Main.C
- The fn has been renamed to *@CoCoAManFileName@*.
Does the original doubt still hold?
It appears to be a hack to s... - 13:06 Feature #1583: New fn ElapsedTimeFrom?
- Currently @CpuTime@ and @ElapsedTime@ return rational numbers (representing seconds).
There is a risk that if some... - 13:04 Feature #1583 (New): New fn ElapsedTimeFrom?
- Now that we have both @CpuTime@ and @ElapsedTime@, should we also have *@ElapsedTimeFrom@*?
- 13:06 Bug #1553 (Closed): Timing SystemCommand
- 12:59 Bug #1553: Timing SystemCommand
- should we also add the Elapsed counterpart of @TimeFrom@?
(new issue #1583) - 12:52 Bug #1567 (Closed): Radical in non-zero char
- Added simple test to @exbugs.cocoa5@.
Closing.
- 12:48 Feature #346 (Closed): Describe should indicate package name
- As reported in comment 10, the original request cannot be fulfilled -- instead use new fn *@PackageOf@*, see issue #1...
- 12:43 Bug #724 (Closed): RationalSolve: wrongly complains about non zero-dim even in finite char
- Added a test to @exbugs.cocoa5@.
Closing. - 12:43 Support #1298 (Closed): How can user find the indent command?
- 12:39 Bug #1577 (Closed): radical: lex order, ERROR: Ring is not standard graded
- 12:04 Feature #1112: New function: IsEmpty
- I made a few tests, and the timings appear to be very similar.
It seems that creating a LIST with the [..] syntax is...
17 Mar 2021
- 11:24 Feature #500: Interpreter: is it possible to avoid useless prompts?
- There could be a subtle bug to deal with: what happens if the interpreter exits while the prompt thread is still run...
- 11:21 Feature #500: Interpreter: is it possible to avoid useless prompts?
- I confirm that disappointingly large overhead mentioned in comment 15 above....
16 Mar 2021
- 12:11 Feature #500: Interpreter: is it possible to avoid useless prompts?
- The loop version from the previous comment worked OK, but incurred a noticeable run-time overhead.
For the time be... - 11:52 Feature #500: Interpreter: is it possible to avoid useless prompts?
- I finally managed to make the orig impl fail (with system exception @Resource temporarily unavailable@).
There were ... - 09:44 Feature #500: Interpreter: is it possible to avoid useless prompts?
- I have tried to cause problems by giving inputs with many simple lines, but observed no indication of trouble (surely...
15 Mar 2021
- 11:02 Feature #368: port SmithNormalForm (CoCoA-4)package to CoCoA-5
- The current version of the code needs to be improved:...
- 10:47 Feature #500: Interpreter: is it possible to avoid useless prompts?
- The current may have a weak spot: if very many simple lines are given as input, presumably the process could create v...
12 Mar 2021
- 17:40 Feature #500 (Resolved): Interpreter: is it possible to avoid useless prompts?
- I now have a prototype which works as expected in various tests :-)
One question: if I start CoCoA inside emacs by... - 12:21 Feature #500: Interpreter: is it possible to avoid useless prompts?
- I have just tried a minor variant of the code excerpt given in the previous comment (11).
It did not work (as expect... - 09:36 Feature #500: Interpreter: is it possible to avoid useless prompts?
- There is a potentially useful code outline on StackOverflow (@https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15524122/how-to-imp...
- 09:39 Feature #133: Qt GUI: Make better distinction between input and output in the output window
- This issue is probably not so relevant at the moment, but it may become useful as a test case for some future GUI.
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