[Axiom-mail] Beginner problem with repeat

[Robert Funnell]

I just started using Axiom recently and have obtained very useful 
numerical solutions of a set of equations. I am now trying to embed 
the solve in a loop so I can easily try different parameter values, 
and I can't get it to work within the loop.

Appended below is a simple test. The solve within the loop is just 
silently skipped over, while the solve outside the loop gives me the 
expected result. Am I doing something silly? Or, rather, what am I 
doing that is silly?

(The comment lines marked bad1 and bad2 are attempts to make the loop 
more elegant. They don't work, but that's another story.)

- Robert

Test case
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)clear all
)set output algebra test_results.txt

eq1 == p^2 + 2*P + 5 = 0; precision := 1.e-6;
plist == [1000,2000,3000]

--bad1 for ip in 1..3 repeat
--bad1   p == plist.ip
--bad2 for p in plist repeat

-- for some reason the solves don't get executed
ip := 0;
for ipp in 1..3 repeat
  ip := ip + 1;
  p == plist.ip;
  output("p=",p);
  solve(eq1,precision)

-- the following solve does get executed
output("p=",p)
solve(eq1,precision)