#5 Scripting Support

[Christoph Ruegg]

define operators, variables etc. in external scripts, either
in extended math.net infix notation or directly in
any .NET language like C# or VB.NET.

also interesting would be the possibility to store and
load the current variables in a parsing demo like session.

[Rana Ian]

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Possible tie in to MathML 2.0?

http://www.w3.org/Math/

[Christoph Ruegg]

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Yes, would be interesting. MathML is planned as a rendering
format anyway (additional to the existing infix and LaTeX
notations), but I don't know MathML 2 in detail yet. Adding a
new MathML Layer to the exitsting infix parser schould be
doable in time however, using the Framework's XML
infrastructure.

[TParker]

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There is a book called 'Building Java Parsers" that could
provide a baseline to what is wanted. A basic mathematical
parser could be allowed to take in XML, console, or
file "script" input and produce a result.

[Christoph Ruegg]

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Parsers are not a problem, we already have a complete parser
infrastructure (I completely rewrote my old infix parser,
see MathNet.Symbolic.Parser) ... MathML could be parsed with
the builtin XML parser, what is missing is the
transformation from the xml tree to MathNet expression
structures (that's where the detailed knowledge about the
MathML specs comes in) ...