remove misuse of dot, v0.6 clean up

Author: jverzani

src/Polynomials.jl

@@ -15,10 +15,10 @@ export Pade, padeval
 import Base: start, next, done, length, size, eltype
 import Base: endof, getindex, setindex!, copy, zero, one, convert, norm, gcd
 import Base: show, print, *, /, //, -, +, ==, isapprox, divrem, div, rem, eltype
-import Base: promote_rule, truncate, chop, call, conj, transpose, dot, hash
+import Base: promote_rule, truncate, chop,  conj, transpose, dot, hash
 import Base: isequal
 
-typealias SymbolLike Union{AbstractString,Char,Symbol}
+const SymbolLike = Union{AbstractString,Char,Symbol}
 
 """
 
@@ -260,9 +260,6 @@ one{T}(::Type{Poly{T}}) = Poly([one(T)])
 ## Overload arithmetic operators for polynomial operations between polynomials and scalars
 *{T<:Number,S}(c::T, p::Poly{S}) = Poly(c * p.a, p.var)
 *{T<:Number,S}(p::Poly{S}, c::T) = Poly(p.a * c, p.var)
-dot{T<:Number,S}(p::Poly{S}, c::T) = p * c
-dot{T<:Number,S}(c::T, p::Poly{S}) = c * p
-dot(p1::Poly, p2::Poly) = p1 * p2
 /(p::Poly, c::Number) = Poly(p.a / c, p.var)
 -(p::Poly) = Poly(-p.a, p.var)
 -{T<:Number}(p::Poly, c::T) = +(p, -c)

src/show.jl

@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ showone{S}(::Type{Poly{S}}) = false
 
 "Show different operations depending on mimetype. `l-` is leading minus sign."
 function showop(::MIME"text/plain", op)
-    d = Dict("*" => "⋅", "+" => " + ", "-" => " - ", "l-" => "-")
+    d = Dict("*" => "*", "+" => " + ", "-" => " - ", "l-" => "-")
     d[op]
 end
 

test/runtests.jl

@@ -227,15 +227,15 @@ repr(p)
 
 ## changes to show
 p = Poly([1,2,3,1])  # leading coefficient of 1
-@test repr(p) == "Poly(1 + 2⋅x + 3⋅x^2 + x^3)"
+@test repr(p) == "Poly(1 + 2*x + 3*x^2 + x^3)"
 p = Poly([1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 1.0])
-@test repr(p) == "Poly(1.0 + 2.0⋅x + 3.0⋅x^2 + 1.0⋅x^3)"
+@test repr(p) == "Poly(1.0 + 2.0*x + 3.0*x^2 + 1.0*x^3)"
 p = Poly([1, im])
-@test repr(p) == "Poly(1 + im⋅x)"
+@test repr(p) == "Poly(1 + im*x)"
 p = Poly([1+im, 1-im, -1+im, -1 - im])# minus signs
-@test repr(p) == "Poly((1 + 1im) + (1 - 1im)⋅x - (1 - 1im)⋅x^2 - (1 + 1im)⋅x^3)"
+@test repr(p) == "Poly((1 + 1im) + (1 - 1im)*x - (1 - 1im)*x^2 - (1 + 1im)*x^3)"
 p = Poly([1.0, 0 + NaN*im, NaN, Inf, 0 - Inf*im]) # handle NaN or Inf appropriately
-@test repr(p) == "Poly(1.0 + NaN⋅im⋅x + NaN⋅x^2 + Inf⋅x^3 - Inf⋅im⋅x^4)"
+@test repr(p) == "Poly(1.0 + NaN*im*x + NaN*x^2 + Inf*x^3 - Inf*im*x^4)"
 
 p = Poly([1,2,3])
 @test reprmime("text/latex", p) == "\$1 + 2\\cdot x + 3\\cdot x^{2}\$"