Re: Documentation of 'output'

Ah! Very clear. Thanks.

Is this explained somewhere that I should have found?

And is the output operator itself documented somewhere? Not that I 
really need it, but I have a feeling that I'm missing something.


On Thu, 18 Oct 2007, Bill Page wrote:

> Robert,
>
> In Axiom there is no need to add extra parenthesis. So both
>
>   sin 1.0
>
> and
>
>  sin(1.0)
>
> mean exactly the same thing. The only time parenthesis are needed is
> if there is any ambiguity.
>
> There is nothing special about 'output'. It is just another operation
> like all other operations in Axiom. So
>
>  output 1
>
> and
>
>  output(1)
>
> mean exactly the same thing. But if you call 'output' with two
> arguments, then you must enclose the argument list in parenthesis like
> this:
>
>  output ("test",1)
>
> so that Axiom knows you intend to apply 'output' to both arguments.
>
> (space before the '(' is optional)
>
> 'output [x,y]'  is a slightly different case. Here you are asking
> Axiom to first form a List '[x,y]' which forms a single value and then
> the 'output' operator is applied to that value.
>
> Regards,
> Bill Page.