Hi Alec,

How should quality control be managed?

For example, I believe that this pair of paragraphs on this page are not correct.

"Only two possibilities exist: either a variable is local to the one procedure which it immediately occurs in, or it is global to the entire Maple session. Local variables are local only to their own procedure. They are not known in other procedures, even within procedures which appear within the procedure which defines them.

If you do not declare your variables to be global or local, Maple decides for you. If a variable appears on the left-hand side of an explicit assignment, then Maple assumes that you intend the variable to be local. Otherwise , Maple assumes than the variable is global to the whole session."

As I interpret those paragraphs, they are both contradicted by the following example,

For example,

> restart:

> x := 17:

> f := proc()
> local x, g;
>    g := proc()
>    local t:
>       t := x:
>       print(t);
>    end proc:
>    x := 13:
>    g();
> end proc:

> f();
                                      13

Upon reading the section "Implicit Local Variables" of the ?proc help-page it becomes more clear that the actual situation in Maple is at odds with the paragraphs above in several ways.

I'm not trying to pick on this entry in particular. I am wondering how to best manage feedback and discussion. Should the wiki have a discussion page for each information page? (I didn't see one. Sorry if I missed it.)

acer

Alec, your last two links above do not work properly.  When you move the mouse over them, you get: 

http://00002783/!x-usc:http://mapleadvisor.com/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/JsMathTest and http://00002783/!x-usc:http://mapleadvisor.com/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/JsMathTest1

It should be mapleadvisor.com/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/JsMathTest

and mapleadvisor.com/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/JsMathTest1 

Regards,
Georgios Kokovidis
Dräger Medical

Please test version 1 (or, maybe, 0.001 :) of maple format in MapleTest, and LaTeX input, as well as new commands $\mi{ ... }$ and $$\mo{ ... }$$ (names suggested by Alejandro Jakubi) for Maple input and output, correspondingly, in JsMathTest1.

In addition to current text there, I tested code from Joe Riel's blog, Faster Permutations, by copying it from there and pasting in the middle of

{{{#!maple 

}}}

Seemed to look good.

Comments are very welcomed.

Alec

It does take a bit of getting used to. However, after a while - it makes sense.

Regards, Glen

I've just added macros for maple (red and bold) input, mi - with a prompt, and
mn - without a prompt. They were suggested by Alejandro Jakubi.

They can be used as

<<mi(some maple input)>>

and

<<mn(some maple input>>

Please feel free to experiment with them on their test page, MiTest.

I used them already in SearchAll.

Alec