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21 Apr 2017

22:52 CoCoALib Feature #357: Constructor for vectors? CoCoAVector
The example use in @ex-RingHom4.C@ did not work properly:... John Abbott
17:59 CoCoALib Design #427: Error names and error messages (current design)
.... just to explain what I'm doing and why: I'm doing some other things, and making mistakes (.... ehm... I'm making... Anna Maria Bigatti
17:57 CoCoALib Design #427: Error names and error messages (current design)
I simplified a few error messages and clarified error for @PolyRingHom@. Excerpt (... Anna Maria Bigatti
17:08 CoCoALib Feature #961 (Closed): New function: ReducedGBasis
Anna Maria Bigatti
15:32 CoCoALib Feature #961: New function: ReducedGBasis
I checked the example in https://cocoa.dima.unige.it/redmine/issues/418.
I convinced myself that this cannot happen ...
Anna Maria Bigatti
15:14 CoCoALib Feature #961: New function: ReducedGBasis
Subtle.... I think there were two problems: I fixed one (now repeating the cycle if a new LPP is found during interre... Anna Maria Bigatti
11:09 CoCoALib Feature #961 (Resolved): New function: ReducedGBasis
Found bug in interreduction.... Anna Maria Bigatti

20 Apr 2017

10:04 CoCoALib Slug #1049: GroebnerFan: slow examples
John Abbott wrote:
> NOTE: this really ought to be a new issue... but hopefully Anna will fix it in a flash!
Emba...
Anna Maria Bigatti
10:02 CoCoALib Feature #780: GroebnerFan/ExternalLib-GFan: improve package
Abbott found this gives error (#1049)... Anna Maria Bigatti
09:32 CoCoALib Design #427: Error names and error messages (current design)
My current thoughts abou the design of errors is that CoCoALib errors will be represented as instances of very few di... John Abbott

19 Apr 2017

20:56 CoCoALib Slug #1049: GroebnerFan: slow examples
The following example fails:... John Abbott
16:41 CoCoALib Slug #1049: GroebnerFan: slow examples
Here are some @GroebnerFanIdeals@ examples which take a long time:... John Abbott
16:37 CoCoALib Slug #1049 (In Progress): GroebnerFan: slow examples
Possibly not too relevant to CoCoA(Lib), but I wanted to collect some challenging GFAN examples. John Abbott
18:13 CoCoA-5 Feature #996: New function: IdealOfGBasis
Cosa dovrebbe fare il seguente?... John Abbott
14:40 CoCoALib Feature #765: ExternalLib-CDD: (needed by GFan)
I still have to intervene manually to make GFAN compile even when CDD has been installed (apparently correctly).
T...
John Abbott
14:30 CoCoALib Design #1019 (Feedback): CPP flags in installed library
CoCoALib now compiles fine with this new approach to handling CPP flags.
There remains a problem with the way (dod...
John Abbott
13:38 CoCoALib Feature #385: Design new errors using inheritance
Following on from my comment 14... well, assuming that we adopt that approach...
This means that practically all e...
John Abbott
08:28 CoCoALib Feature #385: Design new errors using inheritance
There are some notes about "classes of errors" in the CoCoALib documentation for error, section "=== new improved lis... Anna Maria Bigatti
08:13 CoCoALib Feature #385: Design new errors using inheritance
From another point of view (kind of bottom-up).
What we have now shows a few of these situations...
Anna Maria Bigatti
09:42 CoCoALib Design #427: Error names and error messages (current design)
I think that, while thinking of the design using inheritance, it would help to simplify the current design. If we de... Anna Maria Bigatti
08:39 CoCoALib Design #427: Error names and error messages (current design)
In the error messages there are some "is not" and some "must be"... Anna Maria Bigatti
08:36 CoCoALib Design #427 (In Progress): Error names and error messages (current design)
Anna Maria Bigatti
08:16 CoCoALib Design #427: Error names and error messages (current design)
Anna Maria Bigatti wrote:
> Many errors now are called *Not...* (e.g. *NotNonZero*) but that's ambiguous/confusing.
...
Anna Maria Bigatti
08:31 CoCoALib Feature #92 (In Progress): Error Codes
Anna Maria Bigatti

18 Apr 2017

22:54 CoCoALib Feature #385: Design new errors using inheritance
It seems that about 2 years ago I already had the idea that all exceptions originating from CoCoALib should be derive... John Abbott
17:49 CoCoALib Bug #1048 (Feedback): Several tests fail when threadsafe-hack is active
As soon as had I created this issue, I had an idea how to solve the problem...
There were some missing @#include "Co...
John Abbott
17:41 CoCoALib Bug #1048 (Closed): Several tests fail when threadsafe-hack is active
Several tests fail when CoCoALib has been configured with @--threadsafe-hack@.
All failures are of the type "non-zer...
John Abbott
12:09 CoCoALib Feature #730 (In Progress): Stats in GBMill (GReductor)
Studying and organizing the old @GRStats@ code by Max Caboara.
Now adapting it to @VerbosityLevel@.
Anna Maria Bigatti
11:11 CoCoA-5 Slug #1047 (Feedback): NewPolyRing with user defined ordering is slower than CoCoALib
Of course I wrote this issue after solving it ;-)
While comparing two functions using GBases with an elimination o...
Anna Maria Bigatti
10:58 CoCoA-5 Slug #1047 (Closed): NewPolyRing with user defined ordering is slower than CoCoALib
Anna Maria Bigatti

14 Apr 2017

14:56 CoCoALib Feature #730: Stats in GBMill (GReductor)
This issue is about "Stats", i.e. gathering info about number of pairs, timings, etc.
This is strictly related with ...
Anna Maria Bigatti

13 Apr 2017

22:27 CoCoA-5 Bug #1046: CoCoA-5 no longer lists the external libs present
The problem is that the technique used employs a "hack" which reads the command line flags for the compiler.
The n...
John Abbott
22:25 CoCoA-5 Bug #1046 (Closed): CoCoA-5 no longer lists the external libs present
Previously CoCoA-5 listed which external libs had been compiled in.
It no longer does so (except for READLINE).
F...
John Abbott
17:43 CoCoA-5 Feature #1045 (Feedback): Error message from cocoalib to cocoa-5
Following what I said here:
https://cocoa.dima.unige.it/redmine/issues/743#note-7
I added in @Interpreter.C@ a fu...
Anna Maria Bigatti
17:35 CoCoA-5 Feature #1045 (Closed): Error message from cocoalib to cocoa-5
improve error message given by cocoa-5 for errors arising from cocoalib Anna Maria Bigatti
17:29 CoCoALib Feature #92: Error Codes
Anna Maria Bigatti wrote:
> There are some notes about "classes of errors" in the CoCoALib documentation for @error@...
Anna Maria Bigatti
17:17 CoCoALib Feature #92: Error Codes
There are some notes about "classes of errors" in the CoCoALib documentation for @error@, section "=== new improved l... Anna Maria Bigatti
17:20 CoCoALib Feature #743: Better errors: give supplementary info about the error
There are some notes about "classes of errors" in the CoCoALib documentation for error, section "=== new improved lis... Anna Maria Bigatti
14:56 CoCoALib Feature #743: Better errors: give supplementary info about the error
I agree that resolving this issue will take more time than we can invest in the next release.
I think it would be ...
John Abbott
14:31 CoCoALib Feature #743: Better errors: give supplementary info about the error
On the line of what I said earlier, I implemented in Interpreter.C the function @MESSAGE(err)@ to be called instead o... Anna Maria Bigatti
14:01 CoCoALib Feature #743: Better errors: give supplementary info about the error
John Abbott wrote:
> I agree that @BadArg@ is unhelpful. It would be nice to settle this matter, and it would be ni...
Anna Maria Bigatti
13:43 CoCoALib Feature #743: Better errors: give supplementary info about the error
I agree that @BadArg@ is unhelpful. It would be nice to settle this matter, and it would be nice to find some guidel... John Abbott
09:40 CoCoALib Feature #743 (In Progress): Better errors: give supplementary info about the error
I'm getting quite annoyed with getting @The arg(s) given are unsuitable@ in CoCoA-5: looks like being back at the CoC... Anna Maria Bigatti

10 Apr 2017

17:55 CoCoA-5 Feature #1044 (Closed): New function: SectionalMatrix, PrintSectionalMatrix
Anna Maria Bigatti
17:43 CoCoA-5 Feature #1017 (Rejected): New function: SetGBasisAsGens [--> NO: use IdealOfGBasis]
Anna Maria Bigatti
17:42 CoCoA-5 Feature #1017: New function: SetGBasisAsGens [--> NO: use IdealOfGBasis]
Update: don't modify ideal, by make a new one with @IdealOfGBasis@ Anna Maria Bigatti
17:39 CoCoA-5 Feature #965 (Closed): New function: multigraded BettiNumbers
All done some time ago (forgot to update this).
Now documented.
Anna Maria Bigatti
16:47 CoCoA-5 Feature #845 (Closed): Primary Decomposition in CoCoA-5.1.6: zero dimensional, finite characteristic
All done, also tests.
Anna Maria Bigatti
15:50 CoCoA-5 Feature #1043 (Feedback): New function: IsCoprime
All done (for power-products).
This function (for power-products!) was already available in CoCoALib, so I just mean...
Anna Maria Bigatti
15:34 CoCoA-5 Feature #1043: New function: IsCoprime
Presumably the fn should actually be defined for pairs of @RINGELEM@ from any @TrueGCDDomain@.
Maybe for polynomia...
John Abbott
14:43 CoCoA-5 Feature #1043 (Closed): New function: IsCoprime
Add @IsCoprime@ for power-products (as in CoCoALib)
Anna Maria Bigatti
11:43 CoCoALib Slug #1042: LF curiously slow (breaking a poly into homog pieces)
I think this issue is relatively unimportant, hence the "low" priority.
I have put it on redmine just so that we do ...
John Abbott
11:29 CoCoALib Slug #1042: LF curiously slow (breaking a poly into homog pieces)
Here is a complete example:... John Abbott
11:25 CoCoALib Slug #1042 (Closed): LF curiously slow (breaking a poly into homog pieces)
The following loop is curiously slow:... John Abbott
11:40 CoCoALib Support #1039: Rename iroot?
There is also a fn called *@IsExactIroot(ans, N,r)@*. It returns a @bool@, and puts into @ans@ the truncated integer... John Abbott

07 Apr 2017

22:24 CoCoA-5 Design #1041: Separators for elements of a list
Here is an example involving a matrix:... John Abbott
22:21 CoCoA-5 Design #1041: Separators for elements of a list
I have put this in the section CoCoA-5 even though the solution involves (possibly) modifying CoCoALib,
because the ...
John Abbott
22:19 CoCoA-5 Design #1041 (In Progress): Separators for elements of a list
Currently elements of a "list" are printed with comma-space-space between successive elements.
The string defining...
John Abbott
17:19 CoCoA-5 Bug #697: Interpreter: Avoid outputting an empty line after each line of input
removed the empty lines, and checked in.
I like it! A lot more compact :-)
Have a look, what do you think?
Anna Maria Bigatti
16:51 CoCoA-5 Bug #697 (In Progress): Interpreter: Avoid outputting an empty line after each line of input
There is a class called @OSTREAM@ in @Interpreter.H:274@.
Perhaps that class could contain a flag which says wheth...
John Abbott
16:23 CoCoA-5 Bug #697: Interpreter: Avoid outputting an empty line after each line of input
I'm very tempted just to remove this empty line in all cases.... after all I also remove them in the manual and in my... Anna Maria Bigatti
15:56 CoCoA-5 Bug #697: Interpreter: Avoid outputting an empty line after each line of input
Perhaps the interpreter needs to have a flag saying whether a newline should be printed before printing the prompt.
...
John Abbott
15:28 CoCoA-5 Bug #697: Interpreter: Avoid outputting an empty line after each line of input
The line printing the newline is this, in @LineProviders.H@:... Anna Maria Bigatti
16:31 CoCoA-5 Feature #883: gin: return/print a suitable change of variables
John Abbott wrote:
> Printing out the changes of coordinates is OK as a "temporary fix".
Well, depends on what We...
Anna Maria Bigatti
11:43 CoCoA-5 Feature #883: gin: return/print a suitable change of variables
Printing out the changes of coordinates is OK as a "temporary fix".
An equivalent function in CoCoALib should cert...
John Abbott
10:19 CoCoA-5 Feature #883 (Feedback): gin: return/print a suitable change of variables
Final decision is:
- two good changes of coordinates are printed when verbosity is set
- a simpler change of coordi...
Anna Maria Bigatti
14:12 CoCoA-5 Support #1023: CoCoAManual for verbosity: how to find which levels? how to find which functions?
John Abbott wrote:
> It seems a bit odd to have @verbosity@ and @interrupt@ under *@types@*.
@<type>@ is used for...
Anna Maria Bigatti
11:47 CoCoA-5 Support #1023: CoCoAManual for verbosity: how to find which levels? how to find which functions?
It seems a bit odd to have @verbosity@ and @interrupt@ under *@types@*.
Better @types@ than @keywords@?
John Abbott
11:41 CoCoA-5 Support #1023: CoCoAManual for verbosity: how to find which levels? how to find which functions?
also added ... Anna Maria Bigatti
11:24 CoCoA-5 Support #1023 (Resolved): CoCoAManual for verbosity: how to find which levels? how to find which functions?
Anna Maria Bigatti
11:20 CoCoA-5 Support #1023: CoCoAManual for verbosity: how to find which levels? how to find which functions?
I refined my idea: now a function implementing verbosity should have these lines in its manual entry... Anna Maria Bigatti
11:36 CoCoA-5 Feature #996: New function: IdealOfGBasis
OK to put @IdealOfGBasis@ into @SparsePolyRing.C@ assuming you are convinced that that is the right place.
What ab...
John Abbott
09:57 CoCoA-5 Feature #996 (Resolved): New function: IdealOfGBasis
Anna Maria Bigatti
09:56 CoCoA-5 Feature #996: New function: IdealOfGBasis
John Abbott wrote:
> I don't recall being opposed to the idea of having @IdealOfGBasis@ (or something similar) in Co...
Anna Maria Bigatti
10:55 CoCoA-5 Support #1040 (Feedback): CoCoAManual: entry for SetVerbosityLevel/VerbosityLevel
done, and checked in.
Anna Maria Bigatti
10:01 CoCoA-5 Support #1040 (Closed): CoCoAManual: entry for SetVerbosityLevel/VerbosityLevel
Write manual entry Anna Maria Bigatti
10:13 CoCoA-5 Feature #734 (Closed): Primary Decomposition in CoCoA-5: zero dimensional, zero characteristic
All done Anna Maria Bigatti
10:09 CoCoA-5 Feature #175: Approximate BuchbergerMoeller: port to CoCoA-5
To do:
- call TwinFloat
- check documentation
- Now called ApproxPointsNBM/SOI: find better acronym
Laura, Claud...
Anna Maria Bigatti
09:48 CoCoA-5 Bug #994 (Closed): SEGV: Toric example from Kazuki Maeda
Anna Maria Bigatti

06 Apr 2017

23:48 CoCoA-5 Feature #1038: Emacs: sent interrupt to CoCoA
I have just checked in a new version which should use @use-region-p@ if that fn is defined, o/w it uses @region-activ... John Abbott
14:10 CoCoA-5 Feature #1038: Emacs: sent interrupt to CoCoA
Well done! :-)
I have made a small change: call @use-region-p@ instead of @region-active-p@
If I understand corr...
John Abbott
09:34 CoCoA-5 Feature #1038 (Feedback): Emacs: sent interrupt to CoCoA
Done it!
I've been lucky and found @comint-interrupt-subjob@ quickly.
I had some problems in testing it (@load-file...
Anna Maria Bigatti
18:04 CoCoALib Support #1039: Rename iroot?
"better safe than sorry"
the easiest and safest is to give an error when the input is negative.
Even though "Floor"...
Anna Maria Bigatti
15:20 CoCoALib Support #1039: Rename iroot?
John Abbott wrote:
> Currently @iroot@ computes the *truncated* integer part of the real root.
> For instance @iroo...
Anna Maria Bigatti
14:46 CoCoALib Support #1039 (In Progress): Rename iroot?
Currently @iroot@ computes the *truncated* integer part of the real root.
For instance @iroot(-30,3)@ gives @-3@ as ...
John Abbott
14:42 CoCoALib Support #1039 (Closed): Rename iroot?
Some time ago we renamed @ILog2@ to @FloorLog2@, and some other similar functions.
There is still a function *@iro...
John Abbott
06:01 CoCoALib Support #624: Wikipedia
Here is the "wiki":https://www.everipedia.com/CoCoA/
M Travis

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
 

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