Le 27/05/2018 à 16:30, Wozai a écrit :
Dear Samuel,
my point is, it wasn't possible to execute "!A=1" in Scilab 5.x (without
prepending
a space) and IMHO one should really *improve* the situation in Scilab 6,
rather than just restoring the status quo.
Thank you Wozai for having confirmed my reading of your messages.
What Jens and i see is that Scilab 6 has not kept a status quo: by
removing "!" from allowed characters, and by not fixing this, Scilab 6
is downgraded now for almost 3 years it is released. Unfortunately, this
is not a status quo.
I definitively agree that improving Scilab is necessary. This is why i
am involved in it. But i definitely disagree about the fact that what is
considered as an improvement or a downgrade is the decision of one
person or a very few people just declaring that "This is better than
existing features. It must be changed!" (with a frequent trailing
exclamation mark).
Other users than you and me, more numerous than you alone, could easily
consider that keeping the usage of "!" as the history call is
preferable, because they use to use it in other environments, and then
would consider this change as a *regression*, not an improvement.
You seem to consider that using very occasionally a leading space to
address a variable is really a big deal. But how many coders name
preferably their variables with a leading "!" such that having to
prepend a space actually becomes a big deal? I am sorry, but in all the
external codes i had to work on for 20 years, variables with a leading
"!" were rare enough that i don't remember having met a single one.
The usual way to propose an improvement is to post a wish on Bugzilla.
Yours is welcome!
I let Clement pushing the fix for the parser, and i hope it will be
straightforwardly merged.
I will wait 2-3 weeks before documenting the history recall and
CTRL+Space completion
features in the Console page. If within this time it is decided to
change for ":", the page won't
have to be possibly updated afterwards.
Samuel
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