Ralf,

Apparently you can avoid triggering this bug by writing:

  Rep == X

(using == instead of :=).

Perhaps this avoids trigger the automatic coercions that normally make
rep and per unnecessary in Spad.

Regards,
Bill Page.

On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 4:05 PM, Ralf Hemmecke <r...@hemmecke.de> wrote:
>
> Also the following I find somehow problematic (although it's not dramatic
> since there is an easy workaround).
>
> ---rhxBEGIN tst.spad
> )abbrev domain MEX MExpression
>
> Z ==> Integer
> X ==> Expression Z
>
> MExpression: with
>    0: () -> %
>    coerce: % -> OutputForm
>  == add
>    Rep := X
>
>    -- auxiliary functions
>    rep(x: %): Rep == x pretend Rep
>    per(x: Rep): % == x pretend %
>
>    0: % == per((0$Z)::X)
>    coerce(x: %): OutputForm == coerce(rep x)$X
> ---rhxEND tst.spad
>
> The addition of "$X" in the last line is superfluous since the input type
> for coerce in (coerce rep x) is Rep and the return time could be extracted
> from the lefthand side. So it should be clear which coerce to select.
> Unfortunately, without the "$X" the code compiles, but then asking for
>
>  0$MEX
>
> seems to run forever.
>
> Ralf
>
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