Re: [Maxima-discuss] Permutations & Permutation Group Theory

[Raymond T. <toy...@gm...>]

>>>>> "Robert" == Robert Dodier <rob...@gm...> writes:

    Robert> On 2016-05-09, Robert Smith <qu...@sy...> wrote:
    >> I think CL-PERMUTATION may be good for inclusion as a share
    >> package. If someone decides to get started on such a thing, I
    >> would be happy to contribute and help maintain the best I can.

    Robert> Robert, thanks a lot, it looks like solid work. Can you
    Robert> briefly mention what are the areas in which GAP is more
    Robert> extensive? and also the overlap with existing Maxima
    Robert> functions, if any?

    Robert> Merging this into Maxima wouldn't take too much
    Robert> work. Functions visible to the user need to have names
    Robert> that begin with dollar sign, and instead of hyphens, names
    Robert> need to have underscores. I gather that some
    Robert> CL-PERMUTATION functions return closures, right? I don't
    Robert> know if Maxima handles these correctly, but if not, I
    Robert> think that could be relatively easy to fix (in Maxima).

    Robert> Looks like there is already some documentation, that's
    Robert> great. Maxima documentation is composed in Texinfo format,
    Robert> which is clunky and idiosyncratic but not any
    Robert> difficulty. Also it would be great to have a list of pairs
    Robert> of input/output expressions which can be used as a test
    Robert> script.

I've known Robert Smith for some time, and I can work with him to get
this all integrated.  I'll certainly need guidance on this, but, as
you say, it shouldn't be too hard.

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Ray