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[MUG] New Warnings package for Maple8
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Author: Douglas Wilhelm Harder
Posted: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 08:40:42 -0400
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>> From: Douglas Wilhelm Harder "douglas"
Hello,
With suggestions and prompting from Michael Monagan, Douglas Meade, Larry
Norris, Robert Lopez, Robert Israel, and others, I wrote a warnings package.
This package give hints to new users about problems they might encounter as
a result of what they entered at the prompt. For example, a new user might
type any of the following:
> x(x+2); # they probably meant x*(x+2);
> x = 5; # x := 5;
> f(x) := x^2; # f := x -> x^2;
> pi*i; # Pi*I;
> sin^n(x) # sin(x)^n;
> sinx # sin(x);
When such a problem is found, a small maplet (java swing window) pops
up with what they wrote, some comments, and sample code for what they
may have meant. There is a check box which the user may select to make
that particular warning not appear again.
The package does not deal with syntax errors; those errors are generated
before the warnings package has a chance to see what the user did.
You can download the package at:
http://cheetah.vlsi.uwaterloo.ca/~dwharder/maplesque/
This package needs Maple8 to run, and unfortunately it depends on new
kernel functionality in Maple8.
For those who know me, I've left my position at Waterloo Maple and am
now a lecturer in E&CE here at the University of Waterloo, so you can
reach me now using my new address "dwharder" . Any comments
about Warnings would be welcome.
Thanks,
Douglas
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