[GiNaC-list] Parse error involving factorial symbol

[Vladimir V. Kisil]

	Dear Roberto!

	It seems that Ginsh and parser in GiNaC are implemented
  differently. Ginsh understands postfix factorial notation like "3!"
  but GiNaC parser is not. GiNaC parser is still happy with "factorial(3)".

  Best wishes,
  Vladimir
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>>>>> On Thu, 13 May 2021 22:47:59 +0200, Roberto Bagnara <bagnara at cs.unipr.it> said:

    RB> Hi there.

    RB> I am reviving some 10-years old software that is based on GiNaC.
    RB> When I started the work I was pessimistic, given so much time
    RB> has passed.  But now the thing compiles again.  The problem is
    RB> that I cannot parse the test-suite that was used for validation.
    RB> I get:

    RB> on line 392: parse error: GiNaC: parse error at line 0, column
    RB> 0: expected ')' or ',' in argument list, got: "!"  [GiNaC::ex
    RB> GiNaC::parser::parse_identifier_expr()(parser/parser.cpp:88)]

    RB> I guess something has changed in the parser, or maybe my
    RB> reviving effort introduced a bug.  Line 392 is the last one in
    RB> this block:

    RB> y (n+3)!  factorial(3+n) factorial(3+n)
    RB> factorial(n)*(3+n)*(1+n)*(2+n) factorial(3+n) factorial(3+n)

    RB> This is the first block that contains an "!".  This and all the
    RB> subsequent blocks of tests that contain an "!" symbol fail in
    RB> the same way.  None of the blocks before fails.  Any hint?
    RB> Thanks,

    RB>    Roberto

    RB> -- Prof. Roberto Bagnara Applied Formal Methods Laboratory
    RB> Department of Mathematical, Physical and Computer Sciences
    RB> University of Parma, Italy http://www.cs.unipr.it/~bagnara/
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