Re: A Package Function Tutorial
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- Subject: [mg92245] Re: [mg92228] A Package Function Tutorial
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
- Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 03:31:11 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
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Where, exactly, should which files in FunctionTutorial.zip be extracted? The page "Writing Professional Mathematica Functions" at the cited URL says to do so in $UserBaseDirectory, which in my case is: D:\Math\AddOns. Do I literally just extract the whole zip archive there, preserving its directory tree structure, of course? Including putting PacletInfo.m at the top level of that $UserBaseDirectory?? I ask because that's what I did, and I restarted Mathematica 6.0.3 -- with a clean cache just to be sure. But I don't see how to access the documentation now. There's no item for this in Installed Add-ons. And I don't see any other kind of link on the Documentation Center's home page. Also, what do the files in the directory PlatformInstallClean do?? blackhole 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. > -- Murray Eisenberg murray at math.umass.edu Mathematics & Statistics Dept. Lederle Graduate Research Tower phone 413 549-1020 (H) University of Massachusetts 413 545-2859 (W) 710 North Pleasant Street fax 413 545-1801 Amherst, MA 01003-9305
- References:
- A Package Function Tutorial
- From: blackhole@thebushman.net
- A Package Function Tutorial