Printing complex numbers changed?



On 10/27/11 12:05 PM, Dieter Kaiser wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 26.10.2011, 20:08 -0700 schrieb Raymond Toy:
>> It seems that printing of complex numbers has changed.  With maxima
>> 5.23post, I get:
>>
>> (%i1) -1-2*%i;
>> (%o1)                             - 2 %i - 1
>>
>> With the current git version, I get
>>
>> -(2 %i) - 1
>>
>> Was this change intentional?  I kind of like the old way better.  (I'd
>> much prefer -1 - 2*%i, but that seems much harder to produce.)
> Sorry, but I have introduced this bug, when implementing a msize-mminus
> and dim-mminus function. I have already committed a correction in
>
No problem.  I was just curious if this was an intentional change or
just a simple bug.

Thanks for the quick fix.

Ray