>>>>> "James" == James Amundson <amundson@users.sourceforge.net> writes:
James> On Fri, 2004-10-15 at 12:00, Raymond Toy wrote:
>> Since we're making some pretty drastic changes with the case
>> sensitivity changes now, what other drastic changes are allowed?
James> I don't want to see too many drastic changes. However, I wouldn't call
James> most of what you listed below "drastic." I don't know about everybody
James> else, but the code downcasing (and indenting) made a huge readability
James> difference to me. A few more changes in similar spirit would be welcome.
>> Some things I'd like to see, not necessarily now:
>>
>> o Trash old code like stuff for pdp-11, TI explorer, etc.
James> I don't think we should be too afraid to make these changes. Some of the
James> old code really gets in the way. It isn't doing anything now. Anyone
James> interested in history research can look at older versions of Maxima in
James> cvs.
James> I would say that anyone who feels like spending the time to carefully
James> remove various #+- sections should do so. However, we should make a
James> clear list of which *features* are definitely obsolete first.
Ok. If I happen to be looking at some stuff like that, I'll look into
changing or removing them.
James> These are all things that need to be done. I would like to see the most
James> trivial happen first, i.e., removing all #+pdp10 code. The more invasive
James> changes should probably wait for 5.9.3.
Ok. I won't play with special vars or anything until later, although
I did change one in the destructuring-let stuff. But that was pretty
obviously the intended usage because it's only used there. :-)
Ray