Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: help function (Waldek Hebisch)

2007-09-05 Thread Martin Rubey
Waldek Hebisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sorry, I can not find the report now -- [...] But I can show what the problem > was. Put the following in a file: > > poly := (x_ > )*y [...] > BTW: User example was much bigger -- when you naively split big polymomials > into multiple lines you wil

Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: help function (Waldek Hebisch)

2007-09-05 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
On Wed, 5 Sep 2007, Waldek Hebisch wrote: | Choosing good prefix character is not easy, mnemonically Go GUI. -- Gaby ___ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer

Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: help function (Waldek Hebisch)

2007-09-05 Thread Waldek Hebisch
Martin Rubey wrote: > Waldek wrote: > > > Also, we have at least on bug report where closing parenthesis is user input > > is wrongly read as system command. > > I didn't see this bug report, could you send me a reference, please. Do you > think using another character to distinguish name spaces

Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: help function (Waldek Hebisch)

2007-09-05 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
On Wed, 5 Sep 2007, Martin Rubey wrote: | Gabriel Dos Reis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | > (1) -> ?foo x == x + x | >Type: Void | > (2) -> ?foo 3 | >There are no library operations named foo | | > (2) -> <

Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: help function (Waldek Hebisch)

2007-09-05 Thread Martin Rubey
Gabriel Dos Reis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > (1) -> ?foo x == x + x >Type: Void > (2) -> ?foo 3 >There are no library operations named foo > (2) ->

Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: help function (Waldek Hebisch)

2007-09-05 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
On Wed, 5 Sep 2007, Martin Rubey wrote: | Gabriel Dos Reis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | > Martin Rubey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > | > | Themos Tsikas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > | | > | > I take the evolutionary approach: if it was A Good Idea it would have | > | > been copied by no

Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: help function (Waldek Hebisch)

2007-09-05 Thread Martin Rubey
Gabriel Dos Reis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Martin Rubey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | Themos Tsikas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > | > | > I take the evolutionary approach: if it was A Good Idea it would have > | > been copied by now. > | > | Is this the evolutionary approach, or is it j

Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: help function (Waldek Hebisch)

2007-09-05 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
Martin Rubey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Themos Tsikas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | > I take the evolutionary approach: if it was A Good Idea it would have been | > copied by now. | | Is this the evolutionary approach, or is it just a definition of "good idea"? | | I could imagine that jus

Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: help function (Waldek Hebisch)

2007-09-05 Thread Martin Rubey
Themos Tsikas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I take the evolutionary approach: if it was A Good Idea it would have been > copied by now. Is this the evolutionary approach, or is it just a definition of "good idea"? I could imagine that just nobody in the surviving environments knew about the idea

Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: help function (Waldek Hebisch)

2007-09-05 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
Themos Tsikas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | I take the evolutionary approach: if it was A Good Idea it would have been | copied by now. :-) :-) You made my day. -- Gaby ___ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu

[Axiom-developer] Re: help function (Waldek Hebisch)

2007-09-05 Thread Themos Tsikas
I take the evolutionary approach: if it was A Good Idea it would have been copied by now. Best Regards Themos Tsikas > From: Waldek Hebisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > When I began to use Axiom closing parenthesis looked pointless and > obscure to me. Now I can see reasons for using closing parent