Why is tlimswitch false by default? (was: Two identical limits)

On 9/2/07, Nikos Apostolakis <nikos.ap at gmail.com> wrote:

> "Richard Fateman" <fateman at cs.berkeley.edu> writes:

> > It might be a good idea to set tlimswitch to true by default.
>
> This came up at the sage mailing list also.  Are there good reasons
> that the tlimswitch is false by default?

Probably nothing more than the weight of history.

It's OK by me to make tlimswitch = true by default.
I would be interested to know if that makes some of the
known bugs in limit go away (without introducing new ones,
I hope).

best

Robert Dodier