I am rather against the introduction of )include and for the most part would also discourage the use of global macros since both of these language features tend to encourage arbitrary coding styles that, although may be convenient for the programming in the short ter,m might be difficult to appreciate later unless all programmer adhere to some agreed on disciplined style. I think it is one of the features of a language like SPAD that these sort of features are of lesser importance than in some other languages and the Axiom library benefits from that.
Regards, Bill Page. On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Ralf Hemmecke <[email protected]> wrote: >>> )read mymacros.input > > >> Of course not. Why would you expect this? > > > Oh, maybe you misunderstood. That I added .input as an extension and > used )read was only because I couldn't think of another method to > include some spad lines for the current file. > > >> In the future we may add support for ')include' directive, then >> overhead would be reduced to single line, but I do not think we want >> to go below that. > > > Yep. That is exactly, what I want. Would be a nice-to-have, but I don't > depend on it. > > Ralf > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "FriCAS - computer algebra system" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/fricas-devel?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "FriCAS - computer algebra system" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/fricas-devel?hl=en.
