Re: [Axiom-developer] alql and shoe

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

Waldek Hebisch <address@hidden> writes:


[...]

| > Yes, member is a kind of library function in new Boot. Every symbol
| > goes through bfReName (boot/tytree1.boot).  However, you can pretend
| > that you have a function member that is not a library function if you
| > write its name as a string literal
| > 
| >   "member"(kind, '("o" "k" "c" "d" "p"))
| > 
| > which translates to
| > 
| >         ('|member| |kind| '("o" "k" "c" "d" "p"))
| > 
| 
| Indeed.  I have tried some other variation and did not work. So the
| following should be enough:

I misled you.  Sorry.  Shoe is "incomplete", so that the above does
not work right.

Brute force grep shows that getBrowseDatabase is not used in
src/interp.  I'm going to remove the quote to allow build and put this
issue on the TODO list (more precisely, an audit of all users of
member, and other special shoe functions).

-- Gaby