Raymond Toy wrote:
>
>Let me also add item h. Limits.
>
>Limits are particularly hard because you have to dig into the routines
>and patch in some appropriate stuff. I regret not taking any notes or
>adding documentation when I added some limits for the elliptic
>functions. It took me some time to figure that out (probably because
>I was stupid).
>
>I have some preliminary stuff in maxima to evaluate some integrals to
>get elliptic functions, but I don't even know where to begin to
>integrate that with the integrate function.
>
>Ray
>
>
Not ever having changed the limit program, I will accept this, but I
find it sad. I would
hope that the limit programs would use material already on the list and
not have to
be changed themselves. In particular, limit should use differentiation,
simplification,
and (esp. in the variant tlimit) taylor series. If there is some other
knowledge of a
function that is not encoded in these programs and is specific to the
limit activity,
it would be nice to understand what that might be!
RJF