Subject: What should a GUI do; also , why case sensitive?
From: James Amundson
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 13:20:44 -0500
On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 12:23, Richard Fateman wrote:
I'm ignoring your GUI comments only in the interests of replying to your
comments on case sensitivity in a timely manner.
> ..................
> As for the continuing discussion of case sensitivity: I would like
> the maxima source to be in all lower case (except for quoted strings
> or
> comments, perhaps). This seems to be happening. Great.
Yes. In fact, we are done with that stage.
> I would like Maxima to be case sensitive with all system functionality
> in lower case. If someone wants to see or use Sin or SIN rather than
> sin,
> then he or she can insert aliases. There appears to be only one
> possible
> default, and I'd prefer mine.
That's the plan. We are working on it.
--Jim