Oh and BTW, thanks very much for setting up a sensible testsuite. :)
With your permission I would like to add it to the development branch.
If you have time I would be happy for a pull request or I could just
push what you attached to the email.

On 10 February 2017 at 10:19, Bill Page <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Kurt,
>
> Thanks for tracking.  I am sorry that I have not been doing such a
> good job of pushing changes to github. The specific problems that you
> see are the result of some experimentation. Things are still in a
> state of fairly rapid evolution and I should have something new later
> today, time permitting.  As you noticed I have been experimenting with
> different term orderings as I try to enrich the set of rewrite rules.
> As might be expected I have found a few cases that result in
> non-termination and have been looking for inspiration in the
> literature.  For example:
>
> https://www.researchgate.net/publication/223818521_Termination_and_completion_modulo_associativity_commutativity_and_identity
>
> http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~nachum/papers/survey-draft.pdf
>
> and several others by Jean-Pierre Jouannaud
>
> https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jean-Pierre_Jouannaud/timeline
>
> Of course there are many other and newer papers on this subject but I
> have yet to find one that is a good match for what I am trying to do
> right now. If you have any suggestions that would be great.
>
> Bill.
>
>
> On 9 February 2017 at 21:13, Kurt Pagani <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Bill,
>>
>> I pulled the latest version of sexpr.spad today and now get an error I have 
>> no
>> explanation for (I created a unit test file using the input from the 
>> sandbox).
>>
>> Four of the seven errors (see tail of sexpr.output) are not errors as such, 
>> only
>> caused by the ordering.
>>
>> case ex2:20 and 21 might be caused by the Unittest itself, though I'm not 
>> sure.
>>
>> case ex4:4 is strange: the rule application "rc t2" does not work anymore and
>> building "expr" take 30s, and even worse "rc rs expr" takes almost 100s 
>> (result
>> is wrong due to failing of "rc").
>>
>> I had a look at the diff on github but got no clue where it might come from.
>> You will certainly find it in no time.
>> Kurt
>>
>>
>> Am 05.02.2017 um 05:05 schrieb Bill Page:
>>> The reason that i wrote this as _rule is because the interpreter seems
>>> to have a bug that coerces things to Expression Integer.  Using the
>>> function call syntax seems to get around that and I also use a package
>>> call in order to be very specific if necessary.
>>
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