On Wed, 5 Sep 2007, Martin Rubey wrote: | 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.
There definitely are reasons -- subjective such as 'I like it much better', objective such as 'using system reserved name space for system commands'. But, the one given by Tim is plain bogus: it tried to be objective, but its logic is flawed. | 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. I don't see '#' more confusing than ')' -- but maybe your point is that I'm not a human. -- Gaby _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
