Bug#864721: algobox: There is no way to create real functions (and other wishes)

[David Prévot]

Hi Nicolas,

Thank you for your interest in algobox.

On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 03:34:14PM +0200, Nicolas Patrois wrote:
> Package: algobox
> Version: 0.9+dfsg-1+b1
> Severity: wishlist
> Tags: upstream

Forwarding your requests to Pascal Brachet (algobox upstream author), he
is in a better place to reply and/or address your requests than I am.
Please note there have been some improvements in the recent upstream
releases, does all your request still apply to the 1.0.2+dfsg-1 version?

> The function tool is too weak:
> * F1 is a function defined with a single formula.
> * F2 is a function defined by a succession of tests, the first one that is true returns a value.
> It’s too simple in order to create a bit harder algorithms. At least, we should be able to create a real function and why not, create one’s own classes (because I see that there is a few OO syntax in Algobox).
> Moreover:
> * There is no operator for the power, for example ** because ^ seems already used as the undocumented binary bitwise operator.
> * There is no way to create a generalized quantile function, for example ALGOBOX_QUANTILE(list,1,4) would give the first quartile with, why not, an optional flag to tell if the returned value is in the list or if it is interpoled.
> * The operations on integers is not internal, pow(2,100) returns a float.
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 9.0
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)

Regards

David
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