Edit detail for #165 stream2.input infinite loops with streams revision 2 of 3

stream2.input.pamphlet

In general this fixes the problems:

  )set functions compile on

but the way axiom is initialized seems to leave something in a broken state which the set command fixes.

Test 1:

  \begin{axiom}
  )set streams calculate 10
  [j for j in 4.. | j < 10 ] 
  \end{axiom}

does not stop.

Test 2:

  \begin{axiom}
  m==[j for j in 4.. | j < 10 ]
  m
  \end{axiom}

causes GCL to exit, CCL to never complete.

but:

axiom
[j for j in 0.. | j < 10 ]

(1)

works!

issue seems to be 0 vs 4 in loop index

Test 3:

  \begin{axiom}
  )set streams calculate 10
  u==[i+j for i in (-4)..10 | i < 5 for j in 4.. | j < 10]
  u
  \end{axiom}

causes GCL to exit, CCL works.

Test 4:

  \begin{axiom}
  )set streams calculate 10
  u==[i+j for i in 0..10 | i < 5 for j in 0.. | j < 10]
  u
  \end{axiom}

also fails.

issue seems to be end test compile.

Test 5:

  \begin{axiom}
  )set streams calculate 10
  u==[[i+j for i in 0..] for j in 0..]
  u
  \end{axiom}

causes GCL to exit, CCL works.

issue seems to have something to do with macros

because:

  [[i+j for i in 0..] for j in 0..]

works:

  \begin{axiom}
  [[i+j for i in 0..] for j in 0..]
  \end{axiom}

also the sequence:

axiom
)set fun comp on
v==[[i+j for i in 0..] for j in 0..]

axiom
v

Compiling body of rule v to compute value of type Stream Stream 
      Integer

(2)

works!

something appears to be set funny when axiom starts.

Test 6:

axiom
)set streams calculate 10
u(m,n)==[[i*j for j in m..] for i in n..]

axiom
u(3,6)

Compiling function u with type (PositiveInteger,PositiveInteger) -> 
      Stream Stream Integer

(3)

causes GCL to exit, CCL works.

but:

axiom
)set streams calculate 5
[[[i+j+k for i in 0..] for j in 0..] for k in 0..]

(4)

works, and

axiom
[i+j+k for i in 0.. for j in 0.. for k in 0..]

(5)

works!!

Current Axiom version:

axiom
)version
Value = "Friday November 9, 2007 at 19:35:06 "

Will these work in the pending October 2005 release?

i've been concentrating on the problem of documentation. at present i see that the system is too large and difficult for anyone to really begin to make changes, do real debugging, and add new features; all of which we need.

i'm working on organizing and documenting what i know so others can begin to understand.

the key change in this release and in this direction is the file $AXIOM/doc/bookvol5.dvi This file begins to document the interpreter. A similar file will begin to document the compiler, the browser, the graphics, the algebra, etc.

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For example issue 165 the user clearly do not understand that that Axiom blindly performs specified computations and that:

   [j for j in 4.. | j < 10 ]

simply is an infinite loop. Correct stream computation work because they eventually produce some output and compuation is aborted when sufficently many elements are produced, but this one just loops without producing any output.

BTW, my impression is that this issue is a duplicate.

see also #375