Subject: Maxima strings reimplementation now in CVS trunk
From: Raymond Toy (RT/EUS)
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 08:55:17 -0400
Robert Dodier wrote:
> On 10/23/07, Raymond Toy (RT/EUS) <raymond.toy at ericsson.com> wrote:
>
>>> (%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?
>
> Ray, I tried this example with current CVS Maxima + GCL,
> SBCL, and Clisp, and I don't see quote marks around the question.
How silly of me! I must have been playing around sometime ago with
stringdisp and had it set to true in my init file. I had completely
forgotten about it.
It does bring up the question on whether strings should have quotes or
not for things like asksign, but I suppose you could claim that that is
by design. :-)
Ray