Thanks for answers and guidance. My purpose: I posted a solve problem that didn't seem to be working right, and I want to track down what it is doing. If a mistake is being made then I guess I will try to fix it, or more probably make suggestions. http://wiki.axiom-developer.org/SandBoxShortcoming
The topic header is totally wonked; I guess I fell asleep during posting. Ray Martin Rubey wrote: > "Raymond E. Rogers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Sorry to show my ignorance but how do I trace "solve()" ? I had it >> once, and lost it. > > See HyperDoc -> Settings -> Commands -> )trace > > you can say > > )tr SYSSOLP )ops solve )ma > > Three comments: > > * you have to know in which package/domain/category the operation you want to > trace is defined. You can find out by using ")set message bottom on" (short > ")se me bo on") > > * the argument ")ma" to ")trace" makes axiom display the arguments of the > invoked functions using output$OutputPackage rather than raw lisp > formatting. This is very useful, except if you are tracing output, since in > the latter case it will cause infinite loops. There are also other > occassions > where )ma causes infinite loops, unfortunately. It's rare, though. > > * At first it usually makes more sense to trace all of a package, but you know > that, I suppose. > > > Are you trying to tackle one of the solver issues? Or are you going to > document > the solver routines? > > :-) > > Martin > > > _______________________________________________ Axiom-math mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-math
