[GiNaC-devel] [PATCH] parser: handle abbreviations as advertized in the manual.

[Richard B. Kreckel]

Dear Alexei,

Alexei Sheplyakov wrote:
> Remove silly checks from find_or_insert_symbol, and fix its return value
> (should be ex, not symbol).
> 
> Note: theoretically this change breaks the binary compatibility, since
> the return value of the function has been changed. However, the function
> in question is internal, and should be used only by GiNaC itself. Hence
> the patch is OK even for the stable (1.5) branch.

I've applied it. Let's put it like this: after all, it's a regression 
against the manual. :-/

Considering a recent thread on the GMP mailing list 
<http://gmplib.org/list-archives/gmp-discuss/2010-January/003983.html> I 
think that in the future we should strive to be more careful not to 
declare internal functions in header files that are going to be installed.

Cheers
    -richy.

PS: Jens, say, what do you think about releasing 1.5.8?
-- 
Richard B. Kreckel
<http://www.ginac.de/~kreckel/>