[om] About OMV and indexing

[Manfred Riem]

Thanx for the clarification. 

Makes my life a lot easier for the new library implementation.

Manfred.
 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-om at openmath.org [mailto:owner-om at openmath.org] On 
> Behalf Of Mike Dewar
> Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 2:08 PM
> To: om at openmath.org
> Subject: Re: [om] About OMV and indexing
> 
> Hi Manfred,
> 
> I suspect that the proposal for indexed variables will be 
> dropped from the next draft.  There are subtle issues about 
> equality and the people who originally asked for it no longer need it.
> 
> The problem has always been that we want to be able to 
> restrict the second child of an OMBIND to be a list of 
> variables and anything starting with OMA is not a variable.  
> We could introduce other rules of course but this would just 
> complicate matters.
> 
> Cheers, Mike.

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