[LON-CAPA-dev] How does formularesponse work

[Guy Albertelli II]

Hi Peter,

Looks like a typo.

> we have a problem using formula response here, which brings up the 
> question how it works internally. Unfortunately, I am not really capable 
> of understanding what is going on in caparesponse.pm.
> 
> So far, my idea of formularesponse has been that it runs nested 
> for-loops w.r.t. the sampling variables. For instance,
> 
> <formularesponse samples="x,y@-3,-3,;2,2#4" answer="$answer" id="11">
> 
> should result in something like
> 
> for each x value
>     for each y value
>         check whether $answer evaluated at x and y equals
> 		response evaluated at x an y
>         if not break out of the for loops and return false
>     end
> end

Yes, it should, however you have a ; where you want a :

x,y@-3,-3,;2,2#4

Will sample at x=-3,y=-3, and x=2,y=2

x,y@-3,-3:2,2#4

Will sample at 4 random points in the box defined by -3 <= x <= 2, and
-3 <= y <= 2

> <formularesponse samples="x,z,t,C@-3,-3,-3,-3;2,2,2,2#4" 
> answer="$integral" id="11">

and similarly here there is a ; where you likely want a :
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