Re: Plans for gnuplot version 5 [per-line ranges]

[Ethan A M. <sf...@us...>]

On Monday, 21 April, 2014 23:57:29 Tait wrote:
> 
> I think I remember some discussion a while back about changing plot's
> syntax to specify a per-line range for plots. Something akin to:
>   set xrange [-10:10]
>   plot [0:10] sqrt(x), [-10:0] -log(-x+1)
> 
> ... as a substitute for the current approach:
>   rangefunc(x,min,max,func)=(x>min)&&(x<=max) ? func : 1/0
>   plot rangefunc(x,0,10,sqrt(x)), rangefunc(x,-10,0,-log(-x+1))
> 
> Did that idea ever go anywhere? 

A variant of this went into CVS more than a year ago.

   http://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/demo_cvs/piecewise.html

> Since it's backward-incompatible with the current plot [] syntax, it would
> probably have to be a major version change.

In what way is it incompatible? 
I don't recall seeing any reports of breakage.

	Ethan