Karim BELABAS on Tue, 23 Feb 1999 16:07:19 +0100 (MET)


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Re: [PATCH] Do not create new variables if not needed


[Ilya:]
> Btw, when doing this I thought that PARI has something like
> evalstring(STRING), so that
> 
>   evalstring(xx""n)
> 
> would give you a (maybe new) variable xx4.  Why there is no such thing?
> 
>   vector(25,X,evalstring(xx""X))

There is: vector(25,X, eval( Str(xx""X) ))

> Another btw: what happened to the limit on the number of user variables? Is
> it lifted now?

No. The limit should be big enough though (MAXVARN, at least 16383 different
names).

Karim.
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