CASA Function: casaAttributes

Checks whether the argument is a list of string=value pairs as required by CASA.

Calling Sequence:

• b := type(x,casaAttributes)
• b := `type/casaAttributes`(x)

Parameters:

x : anything

• Some Maple expression.

Result:

b : bool

• true, if the argument x is a list of string=value pairs where string can only have certain values.

Description:

• The function returns true if and only if the given parameter has the form list(string=anything) and the string is one of "basespace", "dimension", "genus", "groebnerBasis", "independentVariables", "neighborhoodTree", "properParametrization", "puiseuxTerms".
• For any particular string the corresponding value is checked to be of correct type. See source code for more details.

Examples:

> type(["genus"=1],casaAttributes);

> type("genus"=1,casaAttributes);

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