On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 1:36 AM, John Lapeyre <pdl at johnlapeyre.com> wrote:
> On Sunday 12 October 2008 05:59:31 pm Stavros Macrakis wrote:
> > The implementation of makelist should no doubt be rethought.
> >
> > However, using create_list instead of makelist would be a very bad idea,
> > because create_list has a fatal flaw in its semantics (not its
> > implementation). See my email below. Create_list should be redesigned
> to
> > avoid this flaw.
>
> Ok. I won't be able to get to any of this for a few days. I can
> try working on makelist, but I have to learn to build and test
> all of maxima first.
>
? You don't need to rebuild all of Maxima. You can just load an individual
modified file into the running Maxima.
> There is a similar bug in my Table implementation, that comes
> from allowing Table to work with "apply".
What do you mean by allowing it to work with apply?
> If I can't get it, I'll ask on the list. Some kind of flag that says when
> to
> do an extra evaluation or not might work.
>
This doesn't sound right, but I'm not sure what you have in mind.
-s