Re: historysize

[Hans-Bernhard B. <br...@ph...>]

Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> like when negative numbers have special meaning.  The data file "using" 
> format is like this; 0 means point, -1 means line number, -2 means index 
> number.  I find that not user friendly.  How do others feel?

While it may appear more user-friendly to use names instead of numbers, 
at least in the case of existing syntax, that's a risky change to make.

> I'd suggest "unlimited", "infinity", "infinite" rather than -1.

Now imagine somebody who just happens to have an old gnuplot script
that defines all of the above variables equals to 5.  Or to 1/0, for 
that matter, or 1.0e300.