constantp([]) --> true and polynomialp([], [x]) --> true

• Subject: constantp([]) --> true and polynomialp([], [x]) --> true
• From: Robert Dodier
• Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 23:33:21 +0000 (UTC)

On 2013-08-22, Barton Willis <willisb at unk.edu> wrote:

> Oh, I was goofing around with code that needs to decide when it would
> be OK to dispatch Grobner code. I thought using the defaults for
> polynomialp would be OK---oops, they aren't.  Well actually for the
> Grobner code I need rational coefficients, not just simply numeric
> coefficients.  No particular problem, but it took a bit of testing
> before I found this bug.

Well, I don't have any strong feelings about polynomialp -- if the
current behavior seems like a bug, I'm not opposed to changing it.

best

Robert Dodier

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