[Axiom-developer] RE: Axiom error in issue 289TroubleWithEscapesOrMap

[Page, Bill]

Greg and Martin, 

On Tuesday, May 09, 2006 8:35 AM Vanuxem Grégory wrote:
> 
> Can you look at the following issue (it seems that there is a
> strange bug in IssueTracker):
> 
> http://wiki.axiom-developer.org/289TroubleWithEscapesOrMap
> 

I agree that the previous behaviour of this page seems to be a
strange bug in the way the page is rendered by MathAction. I
still do not understand it. For example if I change the word
'reduce' to reduce1' the display problem goes away (but of
course the code does not work).

and on Tuesday, May 09, 2006 11:53 AM greg added:
> 
>  \begin{axiom}
> ++added:
> +)set func comp on

Good work!

Now it seems even more odd to me that just setting
')set function compile on' also makes the problem go away
and more over the code works. This option is still needed
on Axiom Wiki because the version of Axiom we are using has
not been updated to include the recent bug fix.

I guess that there must be something output by Axiom when the
function is not compiled (and therefore fails) that confuses
the MathAction Axiom output parser - maybe even the lack of
output.

Although this works with the compile option set, I think we
should keep this issue report open because it indicates a
weakness in MathAction that is hard to diagnose.

Regards,
Bill Page.