http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/frink/ Frink Mon, 14 Sep 2009 08:21:25 GMT Alan Eliasen http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/frink/message/255 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/frink/message/255 The current release (2009-09-14) of Frink fixes a potentially severe bug in class initialization that happens under certain circumstances. It is very highly Mon, 31 Aug 2009 01:13:14 GMT Alan Eliasen http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/frink/message/254 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/frink/message/254 ... The short answer is that I haven't written any SOAP methods myself in Frink, and I'm not aware of anyone who has. (But I've found that doesn't mean much.) Mon, 31 Aug 2009 01:04:02 GMT Alan Eliasen http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/frink/message/253 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/frink/message/253 The current release of Frink (2009-08-30) fixes a problem that could occur when raising a floating-point number to a large negative rational power. This could Tue, 25 Aug 2009 06:07:16 GMT Alan Eliasen http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/frink/message/252 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/frink/message/252 The Frink web site is finally back up, which should also fix problems with running Frink under Java Web Start. I had a major technical problem on the 16th and Sun, 23 Aug 2009 15:48:00 GMT Kelly Jones http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/frink/message/251 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/frink/message/251 Frink uses websites and page-scraping for many of its functions. Can Frink use SOAP/REST methods directly? -- We're just a Bunch Of Regular Guys, a collective Wed, 12 Aug 2009 09:34:32 GMT Alan Eliasen http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/frink/message/250 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/frink/message/250 Adding two simple little functions to Frink has allowed it to animate graphics. The animations are remarkably smooth (double-buffered on a modern JVM) for Wed, 05 Aug 2009 04:54:57 GMT Alan Eliasen http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/frink/message/249 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/frink/message/249 ... (For reference, this is in regards to Frink's high-accuracy sun/moon/astronomical calculation library, located at: http://futureboy.us/frinksamp/sun.frink Tue, 04 Aug 2009 23:09:59 GMT Alan Eliasen http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/frink/message/248 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/frink/message/248 ... This change turned out to be overly aggressive, and the changes were removed. If you downloaded Frink earlier today, I'd recommend getting the current Tue, 04 Aug 2009 07:48:56 GMT Alan Eliasen http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/frink/message/247 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/frink/message/247 ... When thinking about this issue, I noticed that x-x can be simplified a bit more aggressively than it was before; the current (2009-08-04) release of Frink Tue, 04 Aug 2009 07:15:27 GMT Alan Eliasen http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/frink/message/246 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/frink/message/246 ... Kelly, This is addressed (in some detail) in the FAQ: http://futureboy.us/frinkdocs/faq.html#WhenXIsAnInterval Please note again that there have been Tue, 04 Aug 2009 06:49:00 GMT Alan Eliasen http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/frink/message/245 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/frink/message/245 ... Kelly, Good question. When desiging Frink, I always intended that symbolic calculations would be possible, but the symbolic transformations that are Tue, 04 Aug 2009 05:21:37 GMT Kelly Jones http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/frink/message/244 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/frink/message/244 Consider this frink program: f[x] := { x+7 } println[f[y]] println[f[y]*f[y]] The results: Warning: undefined symbol "y". 7 + y Warning: undefined symbol "y". Tue, 04 Aug 2009 05:21:34 GMT Kelly Jones http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/frink/message/243 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/frink/message/243 In sun.frink, I noticed that sunset[] doesn't take elevation as a paramater. However, elevation does affect sunrise/set time: the greater your elevation, the Tue, 04 Aug 2009 05:21:25 GMT Kelly Jones http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/frink/message/242 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/frink/message/242 Consider this frink program: x = new interval[-1,1] y = new interval[-1,1] println[x-y] println[x-x] The results are: [-2, 2] [-2, 2] The first one makes Mon, 20 Jul 2009 22:18:09 GMT Alan Eliasen http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/frink/message/241 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/frink/message/241 The latest release of Frink has significant new functionality, especially for symbolic algebra. The compiler now tries to perform more symbolic simplification