On Feb 22, 12:10 pm, smichr <[email protected]> wrote:
> One thing that is helpful is if you copy and paste your actual input
> and output so it can be verified.

That was copy-and-pasted.  For some reason it's behaving differently
on different machines.

> BTW, before you spend a lot of time making these changes, I think it
> would be good to discuss first whether we want this behavior to be
> standard. Do we really prefer -1*(3 + 4*x) to -3 - 4*x? Because if we
> can't reach a consensus the work will be in vain.

I was under the impression from reading back that there was a
consensus, and the only reason it hadn't been done was the nightmare
tangle of tests it breaks.

In any case, I need this behavior, so I'll be doing it for myself
regardless.  I'd like to contribute it back to the community, but if I
end just using my patched version in my application, then it still
won't have been in vain.

>
> Also, when I gave this a try I got stuck at the examples in the
> solving recurrence relationships, as I recall. I believe I left a note
> in Mul.flatten just before the distribution step as I recall.
>
Thanks for the heads up.  Is this in a branch of your repo?  In the
master all I saw just before the distribution step was "Now we are
done".  Although I suppose that could be a message of surrender ;-)

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