...there is some great new compiler food! It's called GiNaC-0.8.0, it is completely fat- and cholesterol-free and available at every good grocery shop next to you. For the not so brave and adventurous, Debian and RedHat pre-cooked servings are expected to follow next week (well maybe). Here is the summary from the NEWS file: * Complete revamp of indexed objects. Instead of multiple classes for indexed things and their indices there is now only one "indexed" class and two types of indices: "idx" for simple indices and "varidx" for indices with variance. There are predefined delta, epsilon and metric tensors, and a function simplify_indexed() that performs canonicalization and dummy index summations. Matrix objects can be indexed for doing simple linear algebra. * Added an option "expand_indexed" to expand() to perform expansion of indexed objects like (a+b).i -> a.i + b.i * Renamed get_indices() to get_free_indices(), which no longer returns dummy indices and checks the consistency of indices in sums. * sqrfree() factorization fixed and improved syntactically. * subs() works on matrices. * Matrices can be constructed from flat list of elements; diagonal matrices can be constructed from list of diagonal elements with diag_matrix(). * Fixed memory leak in expand(). * Operator% for objects of class ncmul has gone. Use operator* now for that case too, which is much more natural. Happy hacking -richy. -- Richard Kreckel <Richard.Kreckel@Uni-Mainz.DE> <http://wwwthep.physik.uni-mainz.de/~kreckel/>