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#644 DESCRIBE confused by duplicate items

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nobody
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2008-01-05
2004-11-10
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DESCRIBE is confused by duplicate items.

In Maxima 5.9.1, there are three such duplicates, %TH,
BUILDQ, and CONTRACT. (%TH and BUILDQ have been fixed
in cvs at this time.) DESCRIBE ("%TH)$ yields a list
of 2 items to choose from; choosing the one marked with
"<1>" yields the text of the entire file containing
%TH. Choosing the other one yields a short paragraph.

DESCRIBE ("CONTRACT")$ is still broken. At present
there are separate @defun CONTRACT items, one in
Symmetries.texi and one in Expressions.texi.

A short-term fix is to merge the two CONTRACT items.

A long-term fix is to get DESCRIBE to handle duplicate
items. I guess this might be a cl-info.lisp problem.
DESCRIBE seems to be aware of duplicates, since the
"<1>" is printed next to one of them.

Since there might well be items with the same name in
different packages (which is the case with CONTRACT),
it seems useful to be able to handle duplicates.

Discussion

  • Robert Dodier

    Robert Dodier - 2008-01-05
    • status: open --> closed
     
  • Robert Dodier

    Robert Dodier - 2008-01-05

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    describe is not confused by duplicates since the revision of the info system in late 2006. Closing this report as fixed.

     

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