display patch, was: get name of variable as string in function?
Subject: display patch, was: get name of variable as string in function?
From: David Billinghurst
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:56:16 +1100
On 7/02/2012 7:17 AM, Robert Dodier wrote:
> On 2/5/12, Edwin Woollett<woollett at charter.net> wrote:
>> On Feb. 4, 2012, Robert Dodier wrote:
>> ----------------------------------
>>>> I would like to define mprint(var) such that
>>>> mprint(a) would give
>>>> a = (value of a)
>>>>
>>> Isn't that exactly what display(a) does?
>> ---------------------------------------------
>> See bug item #3484414 and recent mailing list about display.
>> You are correct that this is what display used to do, but
>> with ver. 5.26.0, (false) precedes the display output
>> if display2d is set to false.
> Well, OK. No need to invent a work-around, it's easier to fix the bug.
> Here is a patch. Can someone commit this? My git sandbox
> is messed up (OH WONDERS OF GIT WILL YOU NEVER CEASE)
> and I can't take the time to straighten it out right now.
>
> best
>
> Robert Dodier
Done.