Subject: Maxima strings reimplementation now in CVS trunk
From: Raymond Toy (RT/EUS)
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 18:13:40 -0400
Raymond Toy (RT/EUS) wrote:
> Robert Dodier wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I've merged strings-are-lisp-strings-branch into CVS trunk.
>> This merge reimplements Maxima strings as Lisp strings.
>> The result compiles successfully and passes run_testsuite
>> with GCL, SBCL, and Clisp (all Linux).
>
> Everything seems to be working fine, but I noticed this today:
>
> (%i8) asksign(x-y);
> "Is "y - x" positive, negative, or zero?"
>
> Note that the question is now enclosed in double quotes. This didn't
> use to do that. Is that intended?
Perhaps $stringdisp should be bound to nil in asksign? Or maybe
dimension-mtext should bind $stringdisp to nil? Or something else? Or
maybe this is the new and improved maxima?
Trace has a similar problem.
Ray