[GiNaC-list] Can GiNaC set info_flag?

[Richard B. Kreckel]

Hi!

Seungyun Cho wrote:
> For example, I want to set a symbol r to be rational, or real, but
> without specifying a value.
> I know one can use info(info_flags::real) to determine if an object is real,
> but I want to do the opposite.
> I found a type 'realsymbol' to do this, but I want many other scopes such as
> rational, prime, positive integer, pure imaginary, etc.
> Is there any solution?

GiNaC doesn't offer that except for what you've already found.

In order to do so in a general way it would also have to track how these 
flags propagate across computations. E.g. If you declare x as prime, is 
x+1 prime? No. Is x+2 prime? Maybe. What about x+n? This quickly becomes 
tricky and of questionable usefulness.

Bye
   -richy.
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Richard B. Kreckel
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