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4 months ago Imported from SourceForge on 2024-07-07 06:20:35 Created by robert_dodier on 2004-11-01 05:13:22 Original: https://sourceforge.net/p/maxima/bugs/516/#0e75
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This bug is addressed by rev 1.15 of cl-info.lisp.
Can't reproduce the above buggy behaviors with Maxima 5.9.1 (cmucl, linux). Observed behavior is reasonable and useful. Closing this bug until someone wants to file a bug against current behavior.
Imported from SourceForge on 2024-07-07 06:20:34 Created by macrakis on 2004-02-23 16:26:28 Original: https://sourceforge.net/p/maxima/bugs/516
When describe() finds more than one match, it offers the interactive choice:
Enter n, all, none, or multiple choices eg 1 3 :
If you enter anything but a space-separated list of numbers and all/none then semicolon, it tends to error out in stupid, ugly, unfriendly ways.
Try, for example, describe(ratp), which prompts:
0: RATP :(maxima.info)Definitions for Polynomials. 1: RATPRINT :Definitions for Polynomials. Enter n, all, none, or multiple choices eg 1 3 : ratp;
The following produce internal errors:
0,1; '0;
The following print nothing, and give no error:
1 $ 0-1; ratprint; 4;
The following give incomplete results:
0 <newline> 1; (shows only ratp)
The following give syntax errors:
0 <newline> ;
(note that the prompt doesn't say you need to terminate with semicolon -- I suspect that originally, the <newline> terminated the input, and the semicolon wasn't necessary)
xmaxima 5.9.0