Re: [fricas-devel] Re: [Axiom-mail] InputForm

2009-06-04 Thread Tim Daly
Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: Tim Daly d...@axiom-developer.org writes: | I've been reading this thread. It seems to me that what people are seeking | is a symbolic algebra rather than a computer algebra system. The distinction | is that a symbolic system manipulates input as parse trees in |

Re: [fricas-devel] Re: [Axiom-mail] InputForm

2009-06-04 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
Tim Daly d...@axiom-developer.org writes: | I've been reading this thread. It seems to me that what people are seeking | is a symbolic algebra rather than a computer algebra system. The distinction | is that a symbolic system manipulates input as parse trees in | syntactic form. | A computer

Re: [fricas-devel] Re: [Axiom-mail] InputForm

2009-06-04 Thread Bill Page
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: ... I would reserve the use of InputForm for syntatic canonical forms of mathematical objects. Currently InputForm values can arise both from parsing of input strings and from coercion of values from other domains. Only the latter are in

Re: [fricas-devel] Re: [Axiom-mail] InputForm

2009-06-04 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
Bill Page bill.p...@newsynthesis.org writes: | On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: | ... | I would reserve the use of InputForm for syntatic canonical | forms of mathematical objects. | | | Currently InputForm values can arise both from parsing of input | strings and

Re: [fricas-devel] Re: [Axiom-mail] InputForm

2009-06-04 Thread Bill Page
| On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: | ... | I would reserve the use of InputForm for syntatic canonical | forms of mathematical objects. | | Bill Page wrote: | Currently InputForm values can arise both from parsing of input | strings and On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at