On May 21, 2005 10:03 AM Tim Daly wrote: > Well, )lisp is actually just a lisp call. Nothing gets in > the way. That's why you get the "VALUE" output. You called > a lisp function. You could write: > > )lisp (progn (|parseAndInterpret| "1+1") nil) > > and get a NIL return value.
Yes, that is clear. But what I want is the CHARYBDIS output returned as a list of strings, i.e. literally and exactly what the print routines display. But instead I want it as a series of strings representing the separate lines of output. > >What I really would like is to see the result also > >returned in the value. > > The result is returned in the value. The question is > interpretation. The lisp-level algebra is all data > structures and embedded function references. #<vector 10ccde54> > is likely the "Union" infovec. What I see is only the type of the result. I don't see anything that looks like it encodes "- cos(x)" in my original example. But again, I am not really interested in the encoding of the algebra. I only want the text presentation of the result as I presume is created by what you called CHARYBDIS. > ... > The best I can suggest is to use the latex output. > Since the output isn't really a linear object there > is no linear syntax. You could invent a linear syntax > but Knuth already did. I am not really interested in a linear syntax. (Although latex output is interesting for a different purpose, later on.) All I want right now is a line-by-line list of strings of the text representation. If I took this list of strings and print them in sequence, the result should look exactly what I see as a result of Axioms's command )set output algebra But I want this a a set of strings because I need to send it back down the http session stream in response to http input. Regards, Bill Page. _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
