Re: Axiom: Programming examples.

Francois Maltey <[email protected]> writes:

> You must? use braces {} and separate instructions with semicolon ; 
> You can indent without any constraint.

As far as I know this only works in Aldor!?

> > (2) In Matlab, there is a pause function which halts program execution
> >     until any key is pressed. How can I construct a function in axiom
> >     to do the same thing ??
> 
> I don't know how are read / input / sleep commands.

You'll need to go to lisp to do that, maybe using read_-line()$Lisp

> > (3) How can an expression be displayed as x1*cos(x2)+........, instead
> >     of x1 cos(x2) +..... ??

maybe you like unparse(expr)::INFORM) 

> > (7) I want to mainly use local variables in function definitions. How are
> >     local variables declared or defined in functions ??
> 
> I believe that all inner variables are local. Try :

Mostly.  within local functions it doesn't seem to work reliably, although it should.

Martin