On 11/13/06, Raymond Toy <raymond.toy at ericsson.com> wrote:
> Robert> I'd like to keep the default value of stringdisp as it is now (false).
> Robert> Otherwise every print("foo"), which I'm pretty sure is a common use
> Robert> of strings in Maxima, is going to yield "foo" instead of foo.
>
> Oh, right. That would be bad. I think the solution to this is to
> bind stringdisp to false in $print. That would take care of that
> issue, assuming that's what we want $print to do always.
OK by me to bind stringdisp to false in print,
and change the default value to true.
Robert