I have mixed feelings about this. I know d. and D. are not used very often,
but this is going to break some
code, i.e. break backwards compatibility. I have some code that uses d./D.
Is backwards compatibility not considered an important point?
On Tuesday, August 27, 2019, 8:48:04 AM GMT+9, Henry Rich
<[email protected]> wrote:
Look at the addon. If you want to improve it, ask for permission to
modify it. People have talked about doing this from time to time, and
now it's possible. Calculus is looking for a champion.
Henry Rich
On 8/26/2019 7:15 PM, Raul Miller wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 7:05 PM Henry Rich <[email protected]> wrote:
>> The primitives for differentiation and integration - d. D. D: - are also
>> removed, but they are going to a Better Place. A new addon,
>> math/calculus, is now available. It provides most of the features of
>> the calculus primitives. Interested users are encouraged to fix &
>> expand this addon to give support for more methods of integration and
>> differentiation.
> How should we do that?
>
> That said, there are something like 70 pages on www.jsoftware.com
> itself that will need to be updated for this, and there are also
> external pages that will need to be updated (I think some might be on
> rosettacode, but that's just an example). All of this will be code
> that won't work again.
>
> At the very least, this kind of thing warrants a special error message
> that will point the hapless student ten years from now in the right
> direction for figuring out how to fix the problem with the example
> they're struggling with.
>
> Thanks,
>
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