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Re: [Axiom-developer] "has" and "with" (was curious algebra failure)
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Bill Page |
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Re: [Axiom-developer] "has" and "with" (was curious algebra failure) |
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Mon, 13 Aug 2007 13:04:42 -0400 |
On 13 Aug 2007 00:39:45 -0500, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> ...
> 2. When one defines a category with default implementation, like
> Monad, the compiler extracts the "purely categorial" part of
> Monad, e.g. the exports; then it implicitly creates a package
> Monad& with an implicit parameter S of type Monad. E.g., it is
> as if the code was written:
>
> )abbrev package MONAD- Monad&
> Monad&(S: Monad): Public == Private where
> Public ==> with
> "**" : (S, PositiveInteger) -> S
>
> Private ==> add
> import RepeatedSquare(S)
> x ** n == expt(x, n)
>
>
> Now the compiler goes on typecheking the defnition x ** n.
> It sees the use of expt() and find out that the only expt() in
> scope if the one from RepeatedSquare(S). Then it tries
> to instantiate that package -- just like a function call.
> From there, it applies the usual rules: Can I coerce S of
> type Monad to the expected argument type of RepeatedSquare()?
> They answer comes out as "no". Hence the error.
>
> Is that less confusing?
>
Yes, thank you! But of course that is how packages and domains in Spad
are normally written and this package does in fact compile just fine
in Spad. See:
http://wiki.axiom-developer.org/SandBoxMonad
as it should.
The question of coercing Monad to
SetCategory with "*": (%, %) -> %
must be yes. I guess the question still is how? and why? does it work.
Regards,
Bill Page.
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- [Axiom-developer] Re: "has" and "with" and bug, Gabriel Dos Reis, 2007/08/13
- Re: [Axiom-developer] "has" and "with" (was curious algebra failure), Gabriel Dos Reis, 2007/08/13
- Re: [Axiom-developer] "has" and "with" (was curious algebra failure),
Bill Page <=
- Re: [Axiom-developer] "has" and "with" (was curious algebra failure), Gabriel Dos Reis, 2007/08/13
- Re: [Axiom-developer] "has" and "with" (was curious algebra failure), Ralf Hemmecke, 2007/08/13
- Re: [Axiom-developer] "has" and "with" (was curious algebra failure), Gabriel Dos Reis, 2007/08/13
- Re: [Axiom-developer] "has" and "with", Ralf Hemmecke, 2007/08/16
- Re: [Axiom-developer] "has" and "with", Gabriel Dos Reis, 2007/08/16
- Re: [Axiom-developer] "has" and "with", Ralf Hemmecke, 2007/08/16
- Re: [Axiom-developer] "has" and "with", Gabriel Dos Reis, 2007/08/16
- Re: [Axiom-developer] "has" and "with", Ralf Hemmecke, 2007/08/16
- Re: [Axiom-developer] "has" and "with", Gabriel Dos Reis, 2007/08/16
- Re: [Axiom-developer] "has" and "with", Ralf Hemmecke, 2007/08/16