Singular

Almost any command in Singular needs to be called with (may be empty) parentheses.
The [i]return [/i] command is not exception from this rule. So put the ( ), and it works as desired.
[code]
> proc test123() {
return(v(1)*v(2));
}
> ring A = 0,(v(1..2)),dp;
> test123();
v(1)*v(2)
[/code]
Hint: To make this proc independent of the names of the variables, write:
[code]
> proc test1234() {
return(var(1)*var(2));
}
> ring rdp = 0,(x,y),dp;
> test1234();
xy
[/code]

Hi,

I am new to singular and have much more experience in mathematica and maple. One thing that separates singular from the other CAS I know is that indeterminates (I call them "symbols") have to be iniitated in a ring before doing any kind of algebra. Now suppose I create a procedure, in here it seems that singular does not care if the ring variables have not been defined. But what confuses me is that the following does not work

[code]
proc test123()
{
return v(1)*v(2);
}

ring A = 0,(v(1..2)),dp;
test123();
[/code]

I'm not really sure how to use the ring variables in the procedure and the documentation does not make me any wiser. Any help would be appreciated. I am trying to ports most of my codes (algebraic geometry for kinematics) to singular because this gives me the opportunity to continue using a free CAS and distribute this to interested people (without requiring them to have maple) and I am slowly getting annoyed of maples slowness (commandline execution gets slower after every new version of maple and older maple are known to be difficult when operating system updates). I also like and feel more comfortable with the C/C++ structure of singular.