Re: exist, configure, doc2tex and \index

[Petr M. <mi...@ph...>]

>> 1. In ./configure, shouldn't strings "(EXPERIMENTAL)" be removed now?
>> Won't be "nice" for 4.2.
>
> Are you sure you are looking at the current source?
> That EXPERIMENTAL marking was removed 12 June 2006.

There are still the following:

   Enable command line macros (EXPERIMENTAL)
   Enable placement of rectangles and other objects (EXPERIMENTAL)
   Enable plot style image (EXPERIMENTAL)
   Enable general binary data file reading (EXPERIMENTAL)
   Enable X11 polygon info in binary, not ascii (EXPERIMENTAL)
   Enable wxWidgets interactive terminal (EXPERIMENTAL)

>> 2. Gnuplot supports both exists('a') and exist('a'), but documents
>> only one of them. As it was me who made this confusion, I would
>> propose to keep only exist('a').
>
> I would rather allow the extra 's' since it is more natural in
> English.  Do you really care about 1 extra character in the source code?

The idea was to have the same name as in Octave.
If we keep both exists() and exist(), they should be mentioned in the docs 
(help exist, help exists)

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