Hi Robert, This sounds great. Could this package be used from within sage, or would it have to be run on a separate installation of maxima? If it runs from within sage, it would probably already solve part of the problem!
Cheers, Stan Robert Dodier wrote: > On Oct 1, 9:33 am, Stan Schymanski <schym...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> Would it be hard to write a routine, which answers all of maxima's >> questions with all possible answers and creates a new solution branch >> for each answer? >> > > I attempted, some time ago, to automate the question-answer > business; the result is the "noninteractive" add-on package. > It sort of works, but it's easy to find cases for which it fails. > Some successful cases and some failures are stated in the > comment header of noninteractive.mac (in the Maxima distribution). > > The general strategy was to intercept questions and generate > the alternatives and re-evaluate under each alternative. > That way it's not necessary to change the code at all of the > places at which questions are generated. I considered that > also and decided against it. > > If anyone is interested, I would very much appreciate your help. > > FWIW > > Robert Dodier > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---