Incompatible changes .. was Re: Program stack overflow defining infix operator

Just use Barton's %if, et al and leave what works alone.

Rich


----- Original Message ----- 
From: Richard Fateman 
To: Robert Dodier 
Cc: Maxima List 
Sent: Sunday, August 09, 2009 2:53 PM
Subject: Incompatible changes .. was Re: Program stack overflow defining infix operator



I think that an open source sourceforge project should rely on building a consensus before making incompatible changes.

In this instance, I vote no.  I do not know how others feel, but perhaps one can find out more systematically.

see surveymonkey.com

for example.

Note that I am not against "boolean simplification",  just against altering the semantics of the programming language to do it.



RJF





Robert Dodier wrote: 
On 8/9/09, Richard Fateman <fateman at cs.berkeley.edu> wrote:

  To the extent that these proposals seem to raise huge issues with
incompatibility with previous programs, I think they should not be
implemented.
    
Sorry, I don't care. "It has been messed up for decades" doesn't
carry any weight for me.

FWIW

Robert Dodier
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