Re: [Maxima-bugs] [ maxima-Bugs-1407378 ] polarform returns a rectangular expression for float argumen



On 1/19/06, Barton Willis <willisb at unk.edu> wrote:

> > Another example is how to deal with "real_interval"
> > objects, which I have been puzzling over.
>
> I wish somebody would re-write the simplification functions
> for the arithmetic operators so that they use object-oriented
> dispatch.
>
> Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think tellsimpafter
> is sturdy enough for incorporating new objects, such as
> real intervals, into maxima.

i'm not sure i know what you mean by object oriented here.
maybe you can give some examples of operations on
real_interval (for example) which can't be handled in the
current tellsimpafter implementation.

robert