On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 9:05 AM, Barton Willis <willisb at unk.edu> wrote:
> maxima-bounces at math.utexas.edu wrote on 02/28/2012 10:45:56 AM:
>
> > P.S. Wouldn't it be reasonable for the function
> > bug_report to show also the values of all such
> > flags?
>
> A stupid Maxima trick is to use reset to determine which user options have
> non-default values. When debugging deep inside a Maxima
> function, calling reset will print the non-default values of the option
> variables. It also resets them---that can cause problems as the
> calculation continues. Possibly the reset code could be modified to
> display non-default values but not reset them.
>
>
That's a cute little trick!
Shouldn't be too hard to add a new function to list all of the option
variables that are changed. Just need to copy reset-do-the-work to a new
function and modify it so that it doesn't do the work. :-)
Ray