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

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

2009-06-03 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
In OpenAxiom, I get (1) - (x + y^2)::InputForm (1) y^2 + x Type: InputForm Cool! Was that done by a simple patch? What is the revision number? I really wonder why in FriCAS I get (^ y 2) as the result of (1) above. That

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

2009-06-03 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
Ralf Hemmecke r...@hemmecke.de writes: | In OpenAxiom, I get | | (1) - (x + y^2)::InputForm | (1) y^2 + x |Type: InputForm | | Cool! Was that done by a simple patch? What is the revision number? it was done by a simple

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

2009-06-03 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
Dear Gaby Looks like r881 is the one you meant. Can you confirm? Martin, is this in your interest? I somehow had the impression that you have other ideas of what InputForm should be used for. Ralf -- r2496 (orig r881):