Re: A Package Function Tutorial
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- Subject: [mg92382] Re: A Package Function Tutorial
- From: WetBlanket <Wyvern864 at gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:34:24 -0400 (EDT)
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On Sep 23, 6:35 am, blackh... at thebushman.net wrote: > I have written a brief introduction to writing package functions that > implement most of the bells and whistles one would associate with a > professionally written function. Some of the topics covered are > implementation of Automatic in functions, overloading of built-in > symbols, and others. > > Yes, most of the material can be found scattered in the shipping > documentation, but my sense is that there is no good place to find > essentially a checklist of the features a good function should have, > like argument checking, attributes, syntax coloring, etc. You will > find that I am no expert, but perhaps someone at Wolfram (or > elsewhere) will be offended enough to contribute some good > suggestions. > > You can find it at my website,http://www.thebushman.net. > > Here you will also find a package I published last month, a NURBS > package providing a bridge from parametric curves and surfaces to CAD- > friendly IGES format. I have installed and read your information. It appears to be very informative and easy to understand. I hope that you will update this information from time to time to increase its value for all of us. Thanks, Gary