Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: commit policy

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>> (4) -> draw(sin(x)^2/x^2,x=0..10)            
>>    Compiling function %H with type DoubleFloat -> DoubleFloat 
>>    Graph data being transmitted to the viewport manager...
>>    AXIOM2D data being transmitted to the viewport manager...
>> 
>>    (4)  TwoDimensionalViewport: "DSIN(x)**2/(x*x)"
>>                                                  Type:
>> TwoDimensionalViewport
>> (5) -> Cannot open
>> /home/wspage/axiom-build/mnt/linux/../../share/graph/header.ps to read.
>> 
>> ------
>> 
>> The graph is drawn with the title just as show above
>> starting with a 'D'. Where did that come from?

>There are a few places in Axiom where an expression needs to be
>linearised: this is one of them and printing parameterised types is
>another.  Somebody had the bright idea of using the facility for
>conversion to Fortran (which I wrote) which by default uses the double
>precision names for intrinsic functions, with the results you see.  I
>remember reporting this as a bug when Axiom was still an IBM project,
>before it even came to NAG!

ok, so i'm a LITTLE behind in fixing bugs :-)
it's likely the bug was on my desk at ibm. 
hopefully this will get fixed this time.

Bill, could you submit this as a bug report so it doesn't get lost?

Tim