Re: Is the symbolic package useless?

[Sergei Steshenko]

--- On Sun, 12/5/10, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <address@hidden> wrote:

> From: Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <address@hidden>
> Subject: Is the symbolic package useless?
> To: "Octave-help" <address@hidden>
> Date: Sunday, December 5, 2010, 9:42 AM
> In the #octave channel, we've had
> several questions about the
> octave-symbolic 'Forge package. We haven't been able to get
> it to
> work. The only documentation I have found for it is this,
> and I don't
> think the package has been updated since 2001:
> 
>      http://jordi.platinum.linux.pl/symbolic.html
> 
> When attempting to do anything with it other than define a
> symbol, it
> throws cryptic errors like this:
> 
>      error: T&
> Array<T>::checkelem (2, -1, -1): range error
> 
> Does this package work at all?
> 
> - Jordi G. H.

I consider it to be useless. The learning curve was too much steep and
documentation appeared to be too dense, so I happily switched to 'Maxima' and 
never looked back.

--Sergei.