Gabriel Dos Reis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > | Themos, > | > | The help function is based on newly created files that are only > | available in the very latest release. > > I believe you missed his point entirely. > > You made a statement of why ')help' is prefered over 'help'. > Thomas just showed a case demaonstrating that that reason is at best > a fallacy (my term).
I also believe that ")help" is much(!) better than "help". I believe that it does make sense to separate functionality like )help, )display, )show, )lib, etc. from algebra functionality. If you agree to that the closing parenthesis is in my opinion a very good sistinction symbol. Aldor uses "#" which is very confusing for humans and for the compiler. If you do not agree to the first statement, we just disagree, which is OK. Just that you don't get me wrong: I have nothing against providing algebra-level access to ")help" - in fact, it does exist. (MoreSystemCommands does it.) But I do believe that a separate "system command syntax" is a very good idea. At least, it appears to me so in everyday usage - and I use axiom more as a mathematician, and rather seldom as a programmer. Martin _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
