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  • From: DrMajorBob <btreat1 at austin.rr.com>
  • Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 05:34:21 -0500 (EST)
  • References: <goquhk$nhj$1@smc.vnet.net> <200903070737.CAA16852@smc.vnet.net>
  • Reply-to: drmajorbob at bigfoot.com

Umm... what's that again, in English? Do what documentation says, and it  
works, do something else and it DOES work?

Is that it?

Bobby

On Mon, 09 Mar 2009 05:17:30 -0500, Andrzej Kozlowski <akoz at mimuw.edu.pl>  
wrote:

> This time it is certainly not a problem with the documentation. What
> the documentation says is exactly what should happen:  in fact it is
> the only sensible thing that could happen. What actually happens is
> not at all sensible since is the result of an oversight, which, in
> fact, can be fixed with a single line of code:
>
> MakeBoxes[DifferentialD[x_],fmt_]:=RowBox[{"\
> [DifferentialD]",ToBoxes[x,fmt]}]
>
> But, of course, it should not be left to the user to have to do it.
>
> Andrzej Kozlowski
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On 9 Mar 2009, at 07:03, DrMajorBob wrote:
>
>> Documentation that isn't accurate?
>>
>> I can NOT believe it.
>>
>> Bobby
>>
>> On Sun, 08 Mar 2009 05:54:12 -0500, Andrzej Kozlowski <akoz at mimuw.edu.pl
>> >
>> wrote:
>>
>>> The problem is this. First, look up the documentation:
>>>
>>> ?DifferentialD
>>>
>>> Now, try it:
>>>
>>> DifferentialD[x]
>>>
>>> Do you get the same thing as the documentation says you should?
>>>
>>> Andrzej Kozlowski
>>>
>>>
>>> On 7 Mar 2009, at 08:37, magma wrote:
>>>
>>>> In version 7.0 on XP I cannot see any bug.
>>>> What is the problem?
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> DrMajorBob at bigfoot.com
>>
>
>



-- 
DrMajorBob at bigfoot.com


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