Re: [GiNaC-list] get_name() doesn't returned a name like "symbolNNN"?

28 Aug 2010


      On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Warren Weckesser <
warren.weckesser@gmail.com> wrote:
...
Hi,
According to the documentation (section 4.5 of the online tutorial), the
following code should produce something like
z.get_name() = "symbol1"
but with ginac 1.5.8, I get an empty string.
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#include <iostream>
#include <ginac/ginac.h>
using namespace std;
using namespace GiNaC;
int main()
{
    symbol z;
    cout << "z.get_name() = \"" << z.get_name() << "\"" << endl;
    return 0;
}
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In an older version of ginac, this used to work as documented.  Is this a
bug, or an expected change in behavior? (Or is it just my installation that
is broken?)
Partly answering my own question...  it looks like the change was
introduced in version 1.5.0.