On Jun 6, 2009, at 1:06 AM, Mike Hansen wrote:

> Hello,
>
> On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 12:31 AM, Simon King<simon.k...@uni-jena.de>  
> wrote:
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I thought that the interfaces to gap, singular, maxima etc. are
>> considered to be unique parents. Apparently gap and singular are, but
>> maxima is only half ways unique:
>
> Each expect interface parent corresponds to a session.  So, if you
> want to make a new GAP session, you'd just do
>
> sage; g = Gap()
>
> For the interfaces to Maxima, the calculus code has its on session
> that it uses.  It's parent is in sage.calculus.calculus.maxima rather
> than the default maxima object which corresponds to
> sage.interfaces.maxima.maxima

The reason to do this is because maxima is not stateless, so it's  
nice not to worry about messing up your calculus when calling maxima,  
or vice-versa.

- Robert


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