Bill Page <[email protected]> writes: | On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: | > | > Bill Page writes: | > | > [...] | > | > | The problem is that FriCAS and OpenAxiom have choosen different | > | names for the machine ordering. In FriCAS it is called "smaller?". | > | smaller?(alpha,beta) evaluates to true if the value of alpha comes | > | before the value of beta in the machine ordering. OpenAxiom calls the | > | same thing "before?". The problem is that the English root word | > | "smaller" has the connotation of size rather than order. But even the | > | OpenAxiom name seems vague and a little awkward to read. | > | > The OpenAxiom choice was based on long experience with that sort | > problem for a difference language but in a much wider context and | > audience: The C++ programming, as you know, has a limited support | > for reflection called Run Time Type Identification (RTTI) that is used | > for various things, including dynamic dispatch and exception handling. | | I think it is good to cite an existing "standard" but I am not so sure | how relevant it is in this context. Perhaps C++ is a little obscure | for the average "mathematically-oriented" developer ... but no matter.
Obscure enough for many prominent scientific and mathematical software are written in that language; but as you say "but no matter". -- Gaby --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "FriCAS - computer algebra system" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/fricas-devel?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
