Re: [Maxima-discuss] An issue in update_examples or maxima

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

On 7/20/25 10:33 AM, Robert Dodier wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 20, 2025 at 7:25 AM Raymond Toy<toy...@gm...> wrote:
>> In Integration.texi.m4, we have this block:
>>
>> @c ===beg===
>> @c f_1 (a) := integrate (x^3, x, 1, a);
>> @c ev (f_1 (7), nouns);
>> @c /* Note parentheses around integrate(...) in f_2 */  f_2 (a) := ''(integrate (x^3, x, 1, a));
>> @c f_2 (7);
>> @c ===end===
> Probably a better approach is to just bring the comment out and make
> it part of the text. I think that's better in general anyway. In this
> case something like:
>
> Note parentheses around @code{integrate(...)} in code{f_2}.
>
> @c ===beg===
> [code, sans comment, goes here]
> @c ===end===
Yes, that's a perfectly reasonable solution.
> I suppose the use of quote-quote is questionable -- it is easy to
> misunderstand what it does -- but that's apart from the formatting
> problem.

Yeah, I'm not generally trying to fix any of those things. I'm just 
basically running update_examples over the whole file and doing some 
minor tweaks on assumptions and such, if needed.

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