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JuliaIntervals / IntervalConstraintProgramming.jl

Calculate rigorously the feasible region for a set of real-valued inequalities with Julia
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Remove the macro interface? #216

Open dpsanders opened 6 months ago

dpsanders commented 6 months ago

With #212 most functionality (currently except for variables) will be available using the symbol interface.

Can we then remove the macro interface? cc @schillic

schillic commented 6 months ago

(I am not sure whether the question was to me.) I do not know what the macro interface is, sorry.

dpsanders commented 6 months ago

Sorry I wasn't clear. I was referring to the following:

Macro interface (old):

C = @constraint x^2 + y^2 <= 1

Symbolic interface (new):

vars = @variables x, y
C = Constraint(x^2 + y^2 <= 1, vars)

The macro interface tried to be too clever by extracting the variables for you, but does not allow enough control. I would like to get rid of it.

However in model.jl in #212 I started to add a model and macro interface that is JuMP-like. (In fact I believe there is now support in JuMP or JuMP-related packages for a constraint programming interface like this already, so we should probably not add one here.)