Agreed. Current behavior is a bug.
-s
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 13:19, Jaime Villate <villate at fe.up.pt> wrote:
> Hi,
> consider:
>
> (%i1) integrate(3,t);
> (%o1) 3*t
> (%i2) integrate(0,t);
> (%o2) 0
> (%i3) integrate([3,0],t);
> (%o3) [3*t,'integrate(0,t)]
>
> I'd rather have that last result evaluated/simplified. Any objections?
> Any takers for that task?
>
> It seems useless, but since my students represent vectors by lists,
> sometimes they have to integrate a vector with one of the components
> null and it is confusing having to force the evaluation with
> ev(%,integrate).
> Cheers,
> Jaime
>
>
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