Re: Member Functions

[Karim BELABAS <Karim.Belabas@math.u-psud.fr>]

> Is it possible to define new member functions with pari?, i would like to
> create new structures (similar to elliptic functions or number fields) and
> extract the information via the "dot" notation.

It's not possible interactively. You have to modify the source code. It will
be quite easy if you're minimally profficient with C (or have access to
somebody who is): just add the new "member" in gp_member_list (in
language/anal.c) and write the corresponding (trivial) C function.

Ex: the ell.j construct (= read 13th component, in the current implementation
of the "ell" type) is defined by the following lines:

  { "j",(void*)j },

static GEN
j(GEN x)
{ 
  if (!is_ell(x)) err(member,"j",mark.member,mark.start);
  return (GEN)x[13]; 
} 

An interface to GP scripting language would be easily implemented, so that
they new members could be defined at GP level and call a user function
instead of a pre-compiled routine. The above definition might then look like:

check_ell_type(x)= if (type(x) != "t_VEC" || length(x) < 14, error("..."))

x.j= check_ell_type(x); ell[13]

I'll think about it. Don't expect it in 2.0.12, though...

   Karim.
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