Martin Baker <ax87...@martinb.com> writes: | On Wednesday 12 Oct 2011 14:56:34 you wrote: | > | > 'rep' is equivalent to the function: | > | > rep(x:%):Rep == x pretend Rep | > | > similarly | > | > per(x:Rep):% == x pretend % | | Thanks Bill, thats very helpful. | | Strangely enough (just for the record) although per is not a known | function in FriCAS the following line does not produce a compile | error: | | arbitrary == per(-1) | | but it did not return the expected type, so I had to do: | | per(x:Rep):% == x pretend % | arbitrary == per(-1)
I think the latter was part of what Bill said. | to get the right type. | I only mention this to illustrate how messy it seems to be to to | translate from one version of Axiom to another, the compiler error | messages are not much help with this sort of thing (if only you guys | could have a reconciliation and merge the forks back together again!) That is a valid criticism and one that I heard frequently. However, I believe it is also plainly clear that OpenAxiom and FriCAS are not at war (at least, the two leading developers are not) so I am not sure "reconcicialtion" is the right word -- maybe you meant something else. OpenAxiom and FriCAS are pursing different lines of visions -- and it is clear that the differences are not just mere differences in how users invokve configure. The differences in philosophy are slowly emerging and I suspect it is going to be like that for a while. | > I prefer to use the email lists - one list or the other is fine. | | No problem. (I was just trying to be tactful and avoid triggering a | 'fork x is better than fork y' discussion but I guess people here are | grown up enough not to do that). I cannot speak for everybody, but I can tell you this: You would not hear that from OpenAxiom developers; and I am sure Waldek would not engage in that. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct _______________________________________________ open-axiom-devel mailing list open-axiom-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/open-axiom-devel
