Le mercredi 27 janvier 2016 05:23:45 UTC+1, saad khalid a écrit : > > I asked the list and here was the response I got. Personally, I think that > it would be a good idea, but I don't know how to implement it myself. > > "The besselexpand is an option variable in maxima core (part of the bessel > function package) and simplify_sum is a share package. In general I think > that share packages should not modify core options when it is not > necessary. And I think functions in general should not change option > variables so that the user can't control them. So the reason why > simplify_sum doesn't change besselexpand to true is not because I know of > some problems with it, but because I try to avoid such behaviour of > functions (I knew that simplify_sum would return nicer results with > besselexpand:true when I wrote that part of simplify_sum). > > But maybe this is a situation in which changing global option variables > should be allowed from a function. > > HTH, > Andrej" >
Just to add a pointer to that discussion on maxima-discuss: - at gmane: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.mathematics.maxima.general/52224 - at sourceforge http://sourceforge.net/p/maxima/mailman/maxima-discuss/thread/CAC05q1u%3D8gJRvBC6ucSRrHstsQqnse2pvV5Xs239qWdNyr1-Ow%40mail.gmail.com/#msg34796315 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-support. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
