"Bill Page" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Quoting Martin Rubey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: | | > ... Igor Khavkine writes: | > | >> Can someone explain this syntax? Looking at the Axiom .spad files, | >> I see that it has general usage +/[...some list construction...]. | > | > It is old syntax for reduce and should go away. | | Rather, I think it is the equivalent BOOT syntax for reduce (right, | Gaby?) and I think it should stay in BOOT where there is no static | type checking.
Yes, and yes. | But I agree that it should not appear directly in SPAD | files. Why? | This expression returns a syntax error in the Axiom | interpreter. If I recall correctly, there a few other places in the | Axiom library code | where old BOOT syntax appears (perhaps for efficiency or to avoid | awkard type manipulations) but should be really be replaced by a | more appropriate Spad idiom. Regards, The interpreter uses the new parser, and I do not seem to see that production there. I would like us to move to the new parser. For leess confusion. -- Gaby _______________________________________________ Axiom-math mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-math
