[GAP Forum] query

[Justin C. Walker]

Dear Forum,

On Oct 14, 2007, at 6:38 AM, arun muktibodh wrote:

>             I am new to GAP. I have GAP4 installed on
> my pc (Windows). Could anybody please suggest how to
> create, save and reload a file ?

After answering Arun's query, I started poking around in the  
documentation, and ran across a minor doc glitch, viz:

Section 9.7 (on-line and my 4.4.10 version) gives an example of the  
use of ReadAsFunction() that does not match its current behavior.   
Given the file /tmp/Foo.g, containing code, the call as documented in  
this section appears to execute the code directly, while in fact, the  
call causes the code in the file to be "wrapped", as if declared  
something like

F := function()
   ... # lines from the file
end;;

The example should then be something like

==========================================
gap> a := 1;
1
gap> F1:=ReadAsFunction("/tmp/example.g");
function(  ) ... end
gap> F1();
100
gap> a;
1
==========================================

In addition, it's not clear from the description that you need to  
treat ReadAsFunction() as a function (that returns a function body  
(with no formal arguments)).

Unless, of course, I've missed something along the way, in which  
case, please correct my misstatements.

Regards,

Justin

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