What should a GUI do; also , why case sensitive?



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