--- Bill Page <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I would not want to dissuade anyone from working on the issue > of StepThrough and Countable but I tend to agree with William > about this. In some cases, the concept of Countable is relatively > simple (as in the case of Fraction as Martin has shown) but in > other cases it could lead to some rather deep mathematical and > implementation issues. That was the conclusion I was coming too from the discussions. > The implications of the category Countable > do seem to affect the Axiom library at a fairly basic level. Of > course these issues are what make the whole subject interesting > and worth pursuing but they may not be the ideal place to start > working with Axiom. Agreed. > I look forward to reading your thoughts abut this William. > > > The coding for UnitsPackage is not as difficult as you think, > > but you should actually take Bill Page's advice and simply > > dive in to get a feel for coding in Axiom (Spad). During all > > the rewriting (you sure will be doing that), you'll learn to > > become fluent in Spad (the compiler version). If you need > > help, lots of people on this board will lend you a hand. > > > > We should remember that Martin has already contributed some > working Spad code for units. See: > > http://wiki.axiom-developer.org/UnitsAndDimensions > > Clifford, (as if you need any more advice ... :) I think a good > place to start would be to understand this code and modify it > (a little at a time) to implement some of the new ideas on units > that you have been thinking and writing about. Most definitely :-). Starting from square one was not what I had in mind - I'm just waiting to look at that code until the desired design is in hand. > If you would just > like to try a few things but not have your experiments broadcast > to the email list, you can work here: > > http://wiki.axiom-developer.org/SandBoxUnitsAndDimensions > > which contains a copy of Martin's original code. Excellent. > All you have to do is click 'edit' and start making changes > to this code. Clicking 'Preview' allows you to test your > changes and 'Save' with save them for other people to see. > But here in SandBox pages, none of the changes you make > (even when you click 'Save') will result in emails to the > mailing list. So please feel free to treat it as if you > personally own this page. Actually, since my home box is offline and will be for a while yet, I'll probably have to do most of my initial tests offline. That reminds me - I (think I) remember a while back discussions as to running the MathAction on individual machines - is that conceivable or is it specific to the current server? Cheers, CY __________________________________ Yahoo! FareChase: Search multiple travel sites in one click. http://farechase.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer