Re: [Axiom-developer] help function

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

On Wed, 5 Sep 2007, Martin Rubey wrote:

| Gabriel Dos Reis <address@hidden> writes:
| 
| > address@hidden 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