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Edit detail for #224 ICARD fails to display database info revision 4 of 6

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Editor: gdr
Time: 2008/05/18 05:48:28 GMT-7
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From gdr Sun May 18 05:48:28 -0700 2008
From: gdr
Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 05:48:28 -0700
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Message-ID: <20080518054828-0700@axiom-wiki.newsynthesis.org>

The IndexCard documentation says that bad things may happen if the
original string is not of the database format.

Submitted by : (unknown) at: 2007-11-17T22:11:34-08:00 (16 years ago)
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The ICARD domain implements a container of information about the AXIOM library

fricas
info:="diferentiate"::ICARD

\label{eq1}\mbox{\tt "diferentiate"}(1)
Type: IndexCard?
fricas
info(name)

\label{eq2}\mbox{\tt "iferentiate"}(2)
Type: String
fricas
info(kind)

\label{eq3}\mbox{\tt "d"}(3)
Type: String
fricas
info(abbreviation)
>> System error: The bounding indices 13 and 12 are bad for a sequence of length 12. See also: The ANSI Standard, Glossary entry for "bounding index designator" The ANSI Standard, writeup for Issue SUBSEQ-OUT-OF-BOUNDS:IS-AN-ERROR

Category: Aldor Library Compiler => Axiom Library

ICARD does not work this way, but coercion should yield an error

The IndexCard? documentation says that bad things may happen if the original string is not of the database format.