Richard Fateman wrote:
> Yes, I wrote the poisson stuff.
>
> As I recall, there are two different encoding schemes used for the
> coefficients, one more efficient (but restricted to CRE) than the other,
> which uses the general simplify "SIMPLIFYA" program.
>
> It was intended that only ONE of the two poisson series packages be loaded.
>
> Someone (Perhaps Bill Schelter?) seemed to set up the system so that
> they both were loaded.
>
> But then someone (else?) decided to comment out all the code in one of
> them, pois2.
> The version that is left, pois3, does not use CRE..
>
> Consequently, the code in ratpoi, which uses CRE, is overwritten and is
> never used.
Yes and apparently it runs the few tests that are in the testsuite
ok.
So we could eliminate ratpoi.lisp? And remove quite a few compiler
warnings that way (I'm donw to 27 in clisp now, after the last
changes in the fortran translated code).
Robert would you remove ratpoi.lisp from cvs?
Andreas