[Axiom-developer] Lisp in Small Pieces

2007-07-07 Thread daly
> I find this very interesting. I wonder what would be involved in > implementing continuations to exploit GCL's multiprocessing > capabilities There have been discussions, some of which are on this list, about using provisos mapped to multiple processors. Consider an expression that says somethin

[Axiom-developer] Re: Lisp in Small Pieces

2007-07-07 Thread Stephen Wilson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Ralf, Stephen, > > I think you'll find this book very interesting. Aside from the > subject matter it also clearly illustrates a style worth copying, > at least in my opinion. He gives the complete source code for a > lisp implementation along with a perfectly readable

[Axiom-developer] Lisp in Small Pieces

2007-07-07 Thread daly
Ralf, Stephen, I think you'll find this book very interesting. Aside from the subject matter it also clearly illustrates a style worth copying, at least in my opinion. He gives the complete source code for a lisp implementation along with a perfectly readable explanation of all of the issues. I th

[Axiom-developer] Re: defintrf.spad compiler bug

2007-07-07 Thread Stephen Wilson
Tim, A further update: My initial experiment appears to work, but it may not be the proper fix (build still pending, at layer 20 ATM). This is my analysis thus far. I belive I have come to a decent theory as to how this issue can be solved. Please bear with me as I try to explain. In buildom.

[Axiom-developer] How to create and post a diff-Naur patch

2007-07-07 Thread daly
Ralf, > ... Maybe some people think that it is completely clear > to everyone on the list what it means to "send a diff -Naur patch" 1) Take a file, say integer.spad.pamphlet 2) Edit the file and save the changed file as integer.spad.pamphlet.ralf 3) diff -Naur integer.spad.pamphlet integer.spad.

[Axiom-developer] Re: defintrf.spad compiler bug

2007-07-07 Thread Stephen Wilson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I've identified 592 potential places where this could occur. > Obviously it does not happen everywhere. I'm reviewing each > code sequence to try to find the nature of the failure. > After that I'll look into the compiler. Im looking at a possible solution, but I am wa

Re: [Axiom-developer] Axiom community goals

2007-07-07 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
Dear Tim, very professionally did you quote Martin. Do you also see that the whole discussion involves emotions even if you never wanted them involved? It is not about being right or wrong. We know that different people on this list have different goals. Cannot we just accept that and go on i

Re: [Axiom-developer] Axiom community goals

2007-07-07 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
On 07/07/2007 10:52 PM, Weiss, Juergen wrote: Tim, in my opinion the Axiom community consists of the people interested in Axiom as users or developers and taking part in the discussions on the Axiom-developer mailing list. Their goals are certainly quite diverse. It is a gross error to equate th

Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: FriCAS

2007-07-07 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
Hi, I must say, I don't like all this discussion about patches sent to the list or not. It is not about agreeing or not agreeing to the Axiom project goals. (BTW, what is the right way to come from http://www.axiom-developer.org to a page that describes these goals?) Note that it took so lon

[Axiom-developer] defintrf.spad compiler bug

2007-07-07 Thread daly
I've identified 592 potential places where this could occur. Obviously it does not happen everywhere. I'm reviewing each code sequence to try to find the nature of the failure. After that I'll look into the compiler. Tim ___ Axiom-developer mailing lis

[Axiom-developer] Axiom community goals

2007-07-07 Thread daly
Having spend nearly 2 hours drafting a reply I've erased it. Each of these replies takes hours to draft and craft. I've tried to make the dirt-obvious point about diff-Naur patching. Either you get it or you don't. I give up. Contribute. Don't contribute. Do whatever you like. Believe whatever y

[Axiom-developer] Re: Axiom community goals

2007-07-07 Thread Martin Rubey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Martin, > > > This is simply not true, unless you don't consider myself as part of the > > community. In that case, I'll stop contributing to "your" axoim project > > today. > > > I find it quite strange that you identify your goals with the goals of the > > axiom com

[Axiom-developer] Re: FriCAS

2007-07-07 Thread Waldek Hebisch
> Define contribute. As I defined contribute, which I believe is the > common open source understanding, it involves creating patches > against the main line of work and publishing them. Show me patches. > I asked for a changeset for hyperdoc so the trunk would be fixed. > I see no changeset posted

RE: [Axiom-developer] Axiom community goals

2007-07-07 Thread Weiss, Juergen
Tim, in my opinion the Axiom community consists of the people interested in Axiom as users or developers and taking part in the discussions on the Axiom-developer mailing list. Their goals are certainly quite diverse. It is a gross error to equate their goals with your goals which you described se

Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: gcl-2.7.0 on FreeBSD

2007-07-07 Thread Mark Murray
Camm Maguire writes: > Greetings! OK, the bsd issues are almost ironed out. > > GCL has made extensive use of unboxed complex arithmetic. Does BSD > have this function somewhere? > > Error: ERROR "dlsym lookup failure on \"cexpf\": \"Undefined symbol > \\\"cexpf\\\"\"" Fast links are on: do (si::

[Axiom-developer] Re: gcl-2.7.0 on FreeBSD

2007-07-07 Thread Camm Maguire
Greetings! OK, though not fully tested yet, I think bsd will build now. I've taken out the fast libc functions in mnum as freebsd does not seem yet to support the c99 complex math function spec. Perhaps we could detect this with configure. The conditional is #+c99. Please let me know if proble

[Axiom-developer] Axiom community goals

2007-07-07 Thread daly
Martin, > This is simply not true, unless you don't consider myself as part of the > community. In that case, I'll stop contributing to "your" axoim project > today. > I find it quite strange that you identify your goals with the goals of the > axiom community. You do agree that the Axiom commu

[Axiom-developer] Re: [Maxima] gcl inlining policy

2007-07-07 Thread Raymond Toy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As for space optimization I'm not sure it matters. I can't think of a case where inlining will happen so many times that space is an issue. Who writes a function with 50 mapcars? For space optimization it might be better to throw away the cached sources. Here is an exa

[Axiom-developer] Re: [Maxima] gcl inlining policy

2007-07-07 Thread Raymond Toy
Matt Kaufmann wrote: It might be *very* useful to have a user-settable special variable that controls inlining. I'm imagining that by default, ACL2 would inline all built-in and user-defined function calls that GCL allows, but that when one wants to trace, then it would be nice to be able to re

Re: [Axiom-developer] friCAS

2007-07-07 Thread Martin Rubey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I'd asked only one thing of anyone who created a fork. I'll ask again. > Please stop using the name Axiom, anywhere. Your fork does not support > the goals of the Axiom project or the Axiom community. It supports > your goals, whatever they may be. Trading on the name o

Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: debugging

2007-07-07 Thread Waldek Hebisch
> Greetings! > > 1) 'boot::|NRTassocIndex| (and others) calls elt on dotted lists of >the form ('|domain| s . s), whereas the spec says elt must take a >proper list. elt is automatically inlined. > > 2) somewhere in boot (by the depsys stage), >si::universal-error-handler is redefine