autoloading messages, was: Maxima 5.12.0 rc1 in cvs & SF download
Subject: autoloading messages, was: Maxima 5.12.0 rc1 in cvs & SF download
From: Robert Dodier
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 09:19:27 -0600
On 4/13/07, Jaime E. Villate <villate at fe.up.pt> wrote:
> the auto-loading of share packages is very useful, but every time a
> package is loaded automatically (max_ext.lisp), a warning is shown
> telling you that a new function has been redefined when in fact
> that function does not exist in the core of Maxima.
> Those warnings can become really annoying; for example, you get 105
> lines of warnings just by computing a simple matrix trace:
> mat_trace(matrix([1,2],[3,4]));
There are two ways to declare an autoloading function,
one way causes the message and the other way doesn't.
I can't remember which is which right now. But I agree
those messages are annoying.
The describe mechanism makes use of autoloading to load its
index. I'd like to change that to the quiet autoload also.
Robert