Re: Re: Another bizarre phenomenon
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- Subject: [mg51730] Re: [mg51673] Re: Another bizarre phenomenon
- From: DrBob <drbob at bigfoot.com>
- Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 01:16:01 -0500 (EST)
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You should always be cautious, but I wouldn't get TOO down on Mathematica, if I were you. It's full of bugs because it's chockful of features. There's always a trade-off. I imagine fixing the (* comments *) bug isn't high priority, and nor should it be. Bobby On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 03:38:48 -0400 (EDT), Steve Gray <stevebg at adelphia.net> wrote: > On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 06:02:52 +0000 (UTC), Steve Gray <stevebg at adelphia.net> wrote: > >> I replaced a 3-letter symbol with another 3-letter symbol, looking at >> each search and replacement. All seemed ok. Then I tried to execute the >> file and it went nuts. I somehow found that if I removed JUST ONE SPACE >> between the Module list of local symbols in a function definition line, >> and a comment on the same line, all was OK again. Wow. This happened >> at least twice, identically. Any comments? >> >> Steve Gray > > Thanks for all your replies. I had no idea that an expensive, professional-level > program would have such obvious bugs. The one about comments is far from the > first one i've encountered. My respect for the program just went down a bunch > and my caution just went down by the same amount. I will no longer assume > that bugs are my fault. > > Steve Gray > > > > -- DrBob at bigfoot.com www.eclecticdreams.net
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