CY, I'm on the Frink mailing list. Did you see this note? In particular, are you aware of the http reference?
------- Start of forwarded message ------- To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2005 02:52:11 -0700 Subject: Re: [Frink] unit suggestion .....<snip>..... By the way, you shouldn't have to do *any* modification of many files containing normal mathematical notation to turn it into Frink notation. Frink is designed, more than any other language I know, to parse normal mathematical notation and units correctly without any modification. If you follow, say, the SI (the International System of units, the modern "metric" system) rules and style conventions ( http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/rules.html ), Frink will usually parse your equations without ambiguity or error. Except where's there's ambiguity in standard mathematical notation. .....<snip>..... For a really interesting look into ambiguities in standard mathematical notation, here's a really interesting talk by Stephen Wolfram, the main person behind Mathematica: http://www.stephenwolfram.com/publications/talks/mathml/index.html Especially read the section called "Computers" to read about precedence, ambiguity in normal mathematical notation, and different attempts to get around it. No, really, read the whole thing. It's a really great article. Mathematica and Frink take different tactics for underlying representation, but the problem of ambiguity in normal mathematical notation is the same. Mathematica breaks normal SI orthography, forcing you to write "Meter" instead of "m" or "meter", etc, so Frink's a bit more natural. .....<snip>..... ------- End of forwarded message ------- _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
