gcd problem



On 2/13/07, Andreas Eder <aeder at arcor.de> wrote:

> > How is this idea supposed to work with the trend of having maxima not
> > asking any questions at all anymore?  Just give an error and exit?
>
> I'm not so convinced that this trend is good :-(
> I prefer the software asking me questions instead of silently proceeding
> to compute the wrong answers.

Well, this is a straw man. Nobody has argued for silently returning
incorrect answers instead of asking questions.

Robert