On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 11:13, Richard Fateman wrote:
> We could try using something much harder to type, with a shortcut.
>
> We already have %, and something like %th(). This was
> copied by Mathematica, using % %% %%% ...
I like the idea of using % for a prefix.
On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 13:04, C Y wrote:
> I think I suggested InL1 (input line 1) and OutL1 (output line 1) a
> while back - to me they seem the simplest descriptive combination to
> type that doesn't conflict with something basic. In and Out I think
> are used in the system too much to be used (if memory serves) and
> anything simpler might get used as a variable name. I don't know what
> trying to use brackets would do.
>
> Maybe some fundamental design name change is needed, but InL1 and OutL1
> might at least serve in the short term. At any rate let's do
> SOMETHING.
I agree we should do something. When we discussed this last time, I
thought we should wait until the case-sensitivity issues were worked out
in the next release so that we could use a mixed-case solution. However,
that would violate the "all-lower case" plan for maxima built-in
objects.
I therefore propose that the default inchar and outchar be set to
%in
and
%out,
respectively. Since there has been much too much discussion and too
little action on this problem, I am going to go ahead and make this
change as soon as I can get through the the cvs repository, which seems
to be temporarily inaccessible.
--Jim