On 11/24/2012 1:48 AM, Sietse Brouwer wrote:
The '^' and 'e' all print a '10 ×' at the begining. It's what is expected for 'e' but not for '^'. Did I miss something?
well, until now ^ and e were equivalent so if that has to change (say ^ no 10) then there need to be agreement about this as it's an incompatible change
I, for one, would expect 2^3 to mean '2 cubed', not 2x10^3. So I'd be in favour of this change. Then again, I have no code that depends on the old meaning...
interesting so then we need a list of more ^2 ^3 ^4 ^5 ... and what about ^1.2 then, what will be the escape for the texlike 2^3? maybe $2^3$, so $ will leave scanning mode the 2^3 is probably not used that much
--Sietse
P.s. Isn't MkIV known to be unstable? I thought the official advice was "If you want stability, use (a) MkII, or (b) a stable version of MkIV, or (c) a dedicated standalone install that you do not update.
so you want instability to be a leading design principle ... i'll think about it Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------