"Serge D. Mechveliani" <[email protected]> writes:

| People,
| can you, please, answer the following beginner questions about the Spad
| language and library?
| 
| escape()   Instead of  '`' it shows the  underscore:   '_' 
| --------   (in fricas-1.1.5).
|            Is this all right?

espace designates the escape character in the Spad language.

| Defining a constant
| -------------------
| I define            parentheses : () -> Set Character
|                     parentheses() == ...
| in a package.
| I need to apply it not as, for example,  ps := f parentheses()  
| but as                                   ps := f parentheses,  
| where  parentheses : Set Caracter.
| But this latter does work. How to arrange this?

It works in OpenAxiom.  

For other AXIOM flavours, you might want to use

   parentheses: constant -> Set Character

But, I seem to remember that they are still lagging proper support for
constants whose types are not '%'.

| 
| I tried   parentheses : Set Character
|           parentheses := ...
|           ...
|           ps := parentheses,
| but it does not work.

that would be the syntax for defining a variable.  But there is no
support for exporting variables -- the best approximation is that you
use a unary function wrapper.

| 
| Using type (domain) synomym
| ---------------------------
| I tried to declare in my package
|   
| ... package ... with
|   Lexeme  : SetCategory
|   spanStr : (Character -> Boolean, String) -> Product(Lexeme, String)
|     ==
|      add
|        Lexeme : SetCategory := String
|        ...
|        < a code using the  Lexeme  type as String >
| 
| and had difficulties. Finally I replaced Lexeme with String.
| What is your advice on this?

Spad lacks good support for Sigma-types, so you need to define Lexeme as
a standalone functor in itself, outside the definition of your package.

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