length() , patch suggestion



On 2013-10-03, Stavros Macrakis <macrakis at alum.mit.edu> wrote:

> I agree.  To be consistent with part, with inpart:false, length(-1/4)
> should be 1; length(1/4) should be 2.

Agreed.

> I would hope that that doesn't break any user's code, but it's hard to know....

I'm willing to take the chance in this case.

> By the way, I'd suggest that when you discuss changes like this, you *
> explicitly* describe the proposed new behavior at the Maxima level (as I
> did above) rather than document the old behavior and the code change.

Agreed.

best

Robert Dodier