Re: [Axiom-developer] Nice Fixes! Another go on IssueTracker

[Martin Rubey]

root <address@hidden> writes:

> Take, for instance, bug 370. There the original bug fix was to change the
> algebra code from (something like)
> 
>   f(a+b)
> 
> to 
> 
>   c:=a+b
>   f(c)
> 
> When I went to apply this patch it didn't look right. But there was no
> documentation about what the patch was intended to do.  It eventually turned
> out that the correct patch was to fix the spad compiler.

Sorry, but do you really mean 

http://axiom-wiki.newsynthesis.org/370ImproperCodeEmmitedByMkUnionFunListImpactsDefintrfSpad

? I cannot see any algebra code there - of course, possibly only the proper fix
(by Stephen Wilson) was sent to IssueTracker, but I'd like to make sure.

Many thanks for clarification,

Martin