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From: | Ralf Hemmecke |
Subject: | Re: [Axiom-developer] Axisp news |
Date: | Tue, 26 Jun 2007 13:46:57 +0200 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 (X11/20070604) |
Yes, constants may contain mutable data. But that's just as in other languages. It is true that you can say l: List Integer == [1,2,3]; l.1 := 4; but in my opinion, you are not really modifying l, but rather l.1, and that's a different story.
And I would even need mutable constants. I want to define a powerseries y = 1 + x * y*yas a constant. The only thing I want a user then to do is to ask for coefficients. But in order to provide such an infinite constant I need a way to compute it without having the compiler run infinitely long.
Ralf
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