On Saturday, March 12, 2011 1:49:40 PM UTC, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > > There have been several instances of where doctests have been found to be > wrong, >
There have been several instances where stated results in published papers have been found to be wrong :-) Just because you quote some paper or claim that its obvious to experts in the field doesn't guarantee that its correct. There is also the issue that some equation's validity might depend on sign conventions, choices of branch points, etc. While I of course agree that doctests should be as correct as possible, I don't think that some bureaucratic act where you demand that people sign of on doctests is going to help much. If anything, the referee should use his personal judgement to determine if a doctest is good or not. In the long run I feel that it is more productive to have code released to expose it to a larger audience so that they can use it with examples they are familiar. Release early, and release often :-) -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
