Re: XPL: Things executing instead of displaying/printing

[Carl Distefano cld@xxxxxxxx]

Reply to note from Harry Binswanger  Wed, 22 Dec
2010 16:40:42 -0500

> Is it proper practice to always use  for integers?
> Fractions? And then there's no problem with handling those S/Gs
> as numbers in subsequent s?

The practice depends on the desired result. Compare:

;*; (1)
;*; PRompt says "1/2"

with

;*; (2)
;*; PRompt says "0.5"

and

;*; (3)
>;*; PRompt says "0.5"

(3) being a verbose way of saying (2).

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Carl Distefano
cld@xxxxxxxx