A new bug with assume and reset() in Maxima 5.18.1?
Subject: A new bug with assume and reset() in Maxima 5.18.1?
From: Robert Dodier
Date: Sun, 3 May 2009 17:29:35 -0600
On 5/3/09, Dieter Kaiser <drdieterkaiser at web.de> wrote:
> We have a bug report which is related to this bug: "Integrating f(x)
> with limits after resetting throws an error" - ID: 1986726.
>
> I have observed several strange things after a reset with the database.
>
> Perhaps it is the best not to reset the global values of the database.
reset processes all the symbols which have been declared by DEFMVAR.
If we just change them to DEFVAR, then reset won't affect them.
reset returns the list of items which it modifies --- maybe we can look
at that and find some that don't need to be changed.
best
Robert Dodier