possibility of making wxMaxima the default GUI (instead of Xmaxima)



On 3/25/06, Ron Crummett <rcrummett at uidaho.edu> wrote:
> You know, as long as we're having this discussion, I think it would be
> great, if, at all possible, to remove the % prefix on other constants,
> such as e and i.  No big deal if not, it just looks a little "clunky"
> sometimes.

The % prefix is to distinguish between an ordinary variable named 'e'
or 'i' and the special constants.    The letter 'i', in particular, is
very commonly used as an index variable, and it would be unacceptable
to forbid that.

Or do you mean on output only?  On output, it would certainly be nice
to have %e and %i (and especially %pi) display nicely.

             -s