On Jun 6, 2009, at 1:06 AM, Mike Hansen wrote: > Hello, > > On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 12:31 AM, Simon King<simon.k...@uni-jena.de> > wrote: >> >> Dear all, >> >> I thought that the interfaces to gap, singular, maxima etc. are >> considered to be unique parents. Apparently gap and singular are, but >> maxima is only half ways unique: > > Each expect interface parent corresponds to a session. So, if you > want to make a new GAP session, you'd just do > > sage; g = Gap() > > For the interfaces to Maxima, the calculus code has its on session > that it uses. It's parent is in sage.calculus.calculus.maxima rather > than the default maxima object which corresponds to > sage.interfaces.maxima.maxima
The reason to do this is because maxima is not stateless, so it's nice not to worry about messing up your calculus when calling maxima, or vice-versa. - Robert --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
