On 02/15/2006 06:02 PM, Martin Rubey wrote:
Ralf Hemmecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
I agree that the limitation on the length of the abbreviation
itself was constrained by the old file names. But there are
many cases where standard short name is quite convenient -
especially for use by expert users in the Axiom interpreter.
For example I often write: 'POLY INT' instead of
'Polynomial Integer' (and I am sure I could think of more
extreme cases where the abbreviations are useful).
Well, I agree that some standard is not that bad. However, I mostly prefer to
use no abbreviation. And if I do in my code I (probably) also provide the
explicit macros I use.
Note that the abbrevations are inaccessible in spad code. There are only for
the interpreter, and I think that this is a good thing.
Aha! That sounds like they are really more or less like macro definitions.
Ralf
_______________________________________________
Axiom-developer mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
