Re: citation()

[Carnë Draug]

On 22 January 2013 00:58, Júlio Hoffimann <address@hidden> wrote:
>> > When you write this, can you add a register and unregister option for
>> > packages and functions? Similar to what colormap() does. This would
>> > allow users to type "citation optim" to get a citation for the optim
>> > package if it exists, or "citation nonlin_residmin" to get a citation
>> > for that function.
>
> Maybe citing functions is too much of granularity?

You're probably right, but given the possibility to register a random
package, then we can't stop people from registering function names as
well (we can avoid it in OF but nothing stops users from making it on
their own package and distribute elsewhere as is intended for Agora).
I guess at registering time one could check if there's a package
installed with that name but why should we actually stop it instead of
leaving it to the maintainer?

Carnë