Arthur Ralfs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I spent some time looking closely at the code in i-output.boot. It > looks awful > to me,
it looks awful. Not only to you :-) > probably not something I want to spend my volunteer hours on. To get an idea > of what's involved I put a write-line statement at the start of each function > and then issued the command "1", this is what I got back: [...] > I seriously ask the questions: does anybody want to deal with this? is it > worth spending time on? I don't think so. Rather, I believe we should have a few commands in boot (something like print a string, get output width, etc.), the rest should move to spad. > Is this type of output anachronistic? What about fixing up OutputForm and > using that as the default text output? No, OutputForm is (or rather, will be) the domain abstracting output. I guess, if we get OutputForm to be good enough for content mathml, TeX and ASCII, it will be really good enough for most what is to come. What we need is a domain ASCII, that converts OutputForm to ASCII art. I don't think that this can be too difficult: you could start with the mathml domain and gradually replace mathml markup by ascii art. Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ open-axiom-devel mailing list open-axiom-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/open-axiom-devel
