Re: Some GP misbehaviours

[Bill Allombert <allomber@math.u-bordeaux.fr>]

On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 04:16:49PM +0200, Karim BELABAS wrote:
> Fixed. It's easy to collapse [r,][c] into [r,c].  [ matcell() ]
> Fixed.  [ filtre0() ]

Now I need to fix gp2c.... :-)

> 
> > 6) ? printtex("a"(x+1)2)
> > a{x + 1}{2}
> > Maybe it is ``smart'' but in accordance to the doc, printtex do
> > automatic concatenation, not automatic splitting, so this should be identical
> > to
> > ? printtex(Str("a"(x+1)2))
> > ax + 12
> 
> This one is not fixed yet. A brute force fix is obvious, but detrimental to
> efficiency (for all routines using a 's*' prototype). I'm still thinking
> about it.

I believe it is sufficient to document what *really* do printex and concatenation?

I suppose all 's*' functions must be given a variant using printf-style format.

Bill