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19 Apr 2021

14:10 Support #448: EmacsUI Source/SourceRegion produce warning on Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate

Maybe we can ask Bernhard Andraschko to check; he does have access to a M$ computer.
I have added him as watcher. John Abbott

13:55 Feature #1431: Juxtaposition of string literals

Another point in favour of @ConcatStr@ is that it could insert newlines between the strings in a list, rather than re... John Abbott

13:48 Feature #1372: New function: find ?

An important feature of the C++ version of @find@ is that it advances an iterator -- effectively it is "find next".
... John Abbott

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... John Abbott

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... John Abbott

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... John Abbott

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... John Abbott

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... John Abbott

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... John Abbott

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... John Abbott

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 ... John Abbott

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:... John Abbott

09:55 Support #1507 (Feedback): wordlist without OBSOLETE entries?

Anna agrees with the proposal. Checked in.
John Abbott

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 --... John Abbott

09:28 Support #1586 (In Progress): Profiling with clang

pg does not work.... Anna Maria Bigatti

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... Anna Maria Bigatti