On 02/06/2018 02:51 PM, Waldek Hebisch wrote: > 3) I am not sure about wisdom of hiding functions. In old days > a lot of folks used simple strategy to learn a new program: > go trough menus or list of functions and look at things > with "promising" names. Now programs got much harder to use: > they hide menu positions and to see them you need to satisfy > precoditions. In other words, to see a function you need to > know where it is and how to use it. Much harder to discover > anything...
Oh yes. I hate this. Browsing through menus that don't show an option that one is sure it was there some day... that's a pain and frustrating. I don't know why some people think that this is good UI design. But what Johannes was suggesting was not hiding functionality, but hiding functions that basically become irrelevant if the structure is know to have more properties. Of course, (if implemented) one could use leftRecip in Integer, but one would most probably prefer recip and never touch leftRecip. So in a sense leftRecip is only a burden while lerning about the functionality of Integer. Ralf -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "FriCAS - computer algebra system" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to fricas-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to fricas-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/fricas-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
