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05 Apr 2017

17:46 CoCoA-5 Feature #1038: Emacs: sent interrupt to CoCoA
John Abbott wrote:
> @C-c C-q@ for "hard quit" (or @QUIT@ in the emacs-cocoa menu).
there is already @C-c C-k@ "k...
Anna Maria Bigatti
13:33 CoCoA-5 Feature #1038: Emacs: sent interrupt to CoCoA
Adding a new key-sequence should be quite easy; actually you probably need 2 new key-sequences (one for @C-c C-c@ eqi... John Abbott
11:30 CoCoA-5 Feature #1038 (In Progress): Emacs: sent interrupt to CoCoA
There are emacs commands *@region-active-p@* and *@use-region-p@*.
After reading the manual, I'm not really sure wha...
John Abbott
07:42 CoCoA-5 Feature #1038: Emacs: sent interrupt to CoCoA
John Abbott wrote:
> It would be nice if the key-sequence were the same as when the cursor is in the @cocoa5@ buffer...
Anna Maria Bigatti
14:08 CoCoALib Feature #1036: LogStream: stream for log output
There is one aspect of the design which is not wholly satisfactory:
there is no safe way of sending logging output t...
John Abbott

04 Apr 2017

18:35 CoCoA-5 Feature #1038: Emacs: sent interrupt to CoCoA
It would be nice.
It would be nice if the key-sequence were the same as when the cursor is in the @cocoa5@ buffer, b...
John Abbott
17:53 CoCoA-5 Feature #1038 (Closed): Emacs: sent interrupt to CoCoA
It would be handy to have a menu item or a key-binding to send interrupt to the *cocoa5* buffer from a cocoa file. Anna Maria Bigatti
17:04 CoCoALib Feature #1035 (In Progress): Improvement: how to sort QuotientBasis?
First we should decide what the public interface is to be.
* One possibility is to have 2 fns *@QuotientBasis@* and ...
John Abbott

29 Mar 2017

18:25 CoCoALib Feature #931: GBasis verbose mode
Current setting seems satisfactory.
Documented in cocoa-5.... not in CoCoALib.
Can we avoid this duplication of doc...
Anna Maria Bigatti
18:21 CoCoALib Feature #961 (Closed): New function: ReducedGBasis
In conclusion: all done for the commutative case.
To do for non-commutative case (new issue).
Closing this one.
Anna Maria Bigatti
18:13 CoCoALib Support #953 (Closed): new file for old functions: obsolescent.C
Anna Maria Bigatti
18:09 CoCoALib Bug #971 (Closed): CheckForInterrupt does not work in the expected way
John Abbott
16:49 CoCoA-5 Bug #994 (Feedback): SEGV: Toric example from Kazuki Maeda
Anna Maria Bigatti
16:48 CoCoA-5 Bug #994: SEGV: Toric example from Kazuki Maeda
definitively a bug: "n" instead of "Indices[n]" in the preprocessing.
Obviously a very rare case.
Anna Maria Bigatti
12:02 CoCoALib Design #983 (Closed): Which ostream for verbose/obsolescent log mesgs?
Solved by issue #1036 (which is a duplicate of this issue, but I created it because a search for "LogStream" found no... John Abbott
11:49 CoCoALib Feature #1036 (Feedback): LogStream: stream for log output
Already implemented: very simple. Written doc.
The only thing missing is an example.
John Abbott
11:48 CoCoALib Feature #1036 (Closed): LogStream: stream for log output
On which output stream should logging messages from CoCoALib be printed?
* @cout@ mixes logging messages with stan...
John Abbott

28 Mar 2017

22:32 CoCoALib Feature #206: Matrix equation solving: LinKer
Anna Maria Bigatti wrote:
> Add also the syntax @LinKer(L)@ where L is a list of linear polynomials.
Modified cou...
Anna Maria Bigatti
13:57 CoCoALib Feature #206: Matrix equation solving: LinKer
Add also the syntax @LinKer(L)@ where L is a list of linear polynomials. Anna Maria Bigatti
17:11 CoCoALib Feature #313: Elim(vector<long>) as PPOrderingCtor
Should we postpone this issue to the next version? John Abbott
16:56 CoCoALib Slug #1009: coefficients for MinPoly e Frobenius
Postpone to next version? John Abbott
13:43 CoCoALib Feature #1035 (Closed): Improvement: how to sort QuotientBasis?
QuotientBasis returns a list of power-products ordered by increasing lex (independently of the ordering in the ring).... Anna Maria Bigatti

20 Mar 2017

14:26 CoCoA-5 Support #1023: CoCoAManual for verbosity: how to find which levels? how to find which functions?
I like the idea of @<key>verbose</key>@. KISS! John Abbott
13:23 CoCoA-5 Support #1023: CoCoAManual for verbosity: how to find which levels? how to find which functions?
I noticed in the new CoCoA-5 manual entry for ApproxPointsNBM there are some incomplete phrases about what various ve... John Abbott
09:00 CoCoA-5 Feature #737 (In Progress): Elementary transcendental functions (sin, cos, tan, log, exp)
Anna Maria Bigatti

17 Mar 2017

16:18 CoCoA-5 Design #998 (Feedback): Emacs UI: sending empty input from cocoa5 buffer
This was done some while ago. I've been using the revised version of @cocoa5.el@ for at least a month without any pr... John Abbott
16:12 CoCoA-5 Bug #1002 (Feedback): Emacs UI: cocoa5-send-line skips too many chars
I made a change to the regexp a while ago. All the examples in the comments above seem to work in a reasonable way.
John Abbott
15:48 CoCoALib Feature #1033 (In Progress): Split poly into homog parts
> In some ways the "eat up" version appeals to me more; though it might discourage casual use... (would that matter?)... John Abbott
15:16 CoCoALib Feature #1033: Split poly into homog parts
I'm against this idea, because I think it might be badly misused.
I see you want to apply it to IsInRadical for a ...
Anna Maria Bigatti
13:50 CoCoALib Feature #1033: Split poly into homog parts
If we do choose to introduce such a function, what should its name be? John Abbott
11:17 CoCoALib Feature #1033 (Closed): Split poly into homog parts
Introduce new function to split a poly into its homog parts.
What should the result be?
* @vector<RingElem>@ whe...
John Abbott
14:15 CoCoA-5 Bug #1029 (In Progress): Readline: does not recognize interrupts
I'm still searching for a "ready-to-eat" solution on the internet, and am also reading the readline documentation.
...
John Abbott
13:19 CoCoA-5 Support #1034 (New): Improve error message when args to (infix operator) IsIn have incompatible types
The infix operator *@IsIn@* accepts many different combinations of arg types.
However, for some non-sensical combina...
John Abbott
11:13 CoCoA-5 Bug #1032: IsInRadical: fragile code
Here are some examples which suggest that it may be better to decompose a poly into its homog parts when testing memb... John Abbott
11:11 CoCoA-5 Bug #1032: IsInRadical: fragile code
Here are some cases where behaviour is not ideal:... John Abbott
11:07 CoCoA-5 Bug #1032 (Closed): IsInRadical: fragile code
The current impls of @IsInRadical@ and @MinPowerInRadical@ are fragile: they give errors when they should/need not.
John Abbott
11:03 CoCoA-5 Support #1031: ScalarProduct: exact defn and manual page
The manual page seems to be very wrong! It should probably be completely rewritten *after* we have decided exactly w... John Abbott
11:00 CoCoA-5 Support #1031 (New): ScalarProduct: exact defn and manual page
We must establish the exact definition of *@ScalarProduct@* and rewrite the manual page accordingly. John Abbott
10:55 CoCoA-5 Feature #633: New operations? ScalarProduct(MODULELEM,LIST), MATRIX * MODULELEM
If we regard @ScalarProduct(A,B)@ as being equivalent to @sum([A[i]*B[i] | i in 1..len(A)])@ then @ScalarProduct@ sho... John Abbott

14 Mar 2017

14:18 CoCoALib Feature #1030: IsInRadical: case of homog ideal
John Abbott wrote:
> I think that if the ideal @I@ is homog then @IsInRadical(f,I)@ is the same as the logical-and o...
Anna Maria Bigatti
14:00 CoCoALib Feature #1030 (In Progress): IsInRadical: case of homog ideal
I think that if the ideal @I@ is homog then @IsInRadical(f,I)@ is the same as the logical-and of @IsInRadical(f_d,I)@... John Abbott
13:54 CoCoALib Feature #1030 (Closed): IsInRadical: case of homog ideal
Currently @IsInRadical@ is defined in a CPKG5, but may soon be translated to CoCoALib.
The case of a homog poly in...
John Abbott
11:34 CoCoA-5 Bug #1029: Readline: does not recognize interrupts
A quick search found the following example use of the @readline@ alternative interface:
@http://www.mcld.co.uk/blog/...
John Abbott
11:32 CoCoA-5 Bug #1029 (Closed): Readline: does not recognize interrupts
Justin C Walker has pointed out that CoCoA-5's current use of @readline@ does not recognize interrupts (_e.g._ Ctrl-C... John Abbott

13 Mar 2017

11:19 CoCoA-5 Bug #1028: Readline: cursor moves wrongly when at start of line with a prompt
There is a (minor?) problem on my old MacBook: typing Ctrl-A when the cursor is at the right-end of the line does som... John Abbott
10:59 CoCoA-5 Bug #1028 (Resolved): Readline: cursor moves wrongly when at start of line with a prompt
I think I have just been lucky (or was it Giovanni's good design?).
I have just edited @ReadLineProvider::doReadNext...
John Abbott
10:52 CoCoA-5 Bug #1028: Readline: cursor moves wrongly when at start of line with a prompt
As Justin C Walker pointed out, the @readline@ command can accept a string arg which is printed as the prompt.
Cur...
John Abbott
10:49 CoCoA-5 Bug #1028 (Closed): Readline: cursor moves wrongly when at start of line with a prompt
Problem reported by Justin C Walker via email.
To exhibit problem: start CoCoA-5 (with readline) in a terminal; ty...
John Abbott

10 Mar 2017

19:18 CoCoALib Design #1019: CPP flags in installed library
The tests are producing strange results: it seems that there is some mysterious problem with the threadsafe counter :... John Abbott
19:17 CoCoALib Design #1019: CPP flags in installed library
I now have a first impl of the "preprocessor definitions" header file.
One question which has just arisen is the f...
John Abbott
13:06 CoCoA-5 Bug #946: Function "ideal" evaluates the argument twice
Despite the *urgent* status I have postponed this to the next version. After all it is principally a matter of effic... John Abbott

09 Mar 2017

18:01 CoCoA-5 Bug #946: Function "ideal" evaluates the argument twice
I think this is far too difficult for this release.
I suggest moving it to next.
Anna Maria Bigatti
17:18 CoCoA-5 Bug #946: Function "ideal" evaluates the argument twice
For an *urgent* issue, this is making very slow progress :-(
Perhaps someone (who??) should produce a test file wh...
John Abbott
17:31 CoCoA-5 Slug #1025: Example of slow LEX GBasis computation
This is really unrelated: it is an ideal with a surprisingly "large" DegRevLex RGBasis... John Abbott
16:30 CoCoA-5 Slug #1025: Example of slow LEX GBasis computation
More examples: these all have support a 3-subset of supp((x+y+z)^3+x) and coeffs +1 or -1... John Abbott
14:14 CoCoA-5 Support #1027 (Closed): CoCoAManual: add a page with some emacs hints?
Would it be a good idea to add a page with a few basic emacs commands to the CoCoA-5 online manual? John Abbott
14:12 CoCoA-5 Bug #727: Emacs UI: send-file (C-c C-f) should check if buffer and file are synchronized
There is an emacs function *@diff-buffer-with-file@*.
Another possibility is to run *@sum@* on the buffer contents...
John Abbott

08 Mar 2017

23:59 CoCoA-5 Slug #1025: Example of slow LEX GBasis computation
Here are some more slow examples:... John Abbott
18:56 CoCoA-5 Slug #1025: Example of slow LEX GBasis computation
Here are some simple-looking ideals whose lex GBs cannot be computed (in reasonable time) by CoCoA-5.1.5:... John Abbott
18:58 CoCoA-5 Design #1020 (In Progress): Rename minimalized(I) into IdealOfMinGens(I)?
See also the discussion in issue #996 about which bool3 flags can be (ought to be) copied, and which cannot.
John Abbott
18:43 CoCoA-5 Feature #996 (In Progress): New function: IdealOfGBasis
I don't recall being opposed to the idea of having @IdealOfGBasis@ (or something similar) in CoCoALib.
Now that yo...
John Abbott
08:44 CoCoA-5 Feature #996: New function: IdealOfGBasis
John Abbott wrote:
> As I pointed out in #1020, this fn should also copy across any 3-way flags (_e.g._ @IamRadical3...
Anna Maria Bigatti
18:35 CoCoALib Design #1019: CPP flags in installed library
After some consideration I think it is best to put all the CPP "flags" into a single header file, then any files whic... John Abbott
17:03 CoCoA-5 Feature #737: Elementary transcendental functions (sin, cos, tan, log, exp)
I've checked it in (not documented).... Anna Maria Bigatti
15:26 CoCoALib Bug #1026: JanetBasis gives error indet index out of range
There is a certain irony in finding this problem just 5 minutes after Mario left for good...
Is the implementation...
John Abbott
15:24 CoCoALib Bug #1026 (New): JanetBasis gives error indet index out of range
The following input gives an error:... John Abbott

07 Mar 2017

21:17 CoCoA-5 Slug #1025: Example of slow LEX GBasis computation
Send the output to a file! (over 40Mbytes)
Biggest coeffs are from the 3rd last polynomial; but several others are...
John Abbott
21:15 CoCoA-5 Slug #1025 (In Progress): Example of slow LEX GBasis computation
I am putting this example here just not to lose it:... John Abbott
 

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