Re: Should gnuplot become a programming environment?

[Philipp K. J. <ja...@ie...>]

On Fri, 31 Oct 2014 17:38:00 +0100
pl...@pi... wrote:

> On 10/30/14 22:42, Ethan A Merritt wrote:
> >
> > On Thursday, 30 October, 2014 12:58:54 pl...@pi... wrote:
> >>   Also the odd need to use commas in place of the usual semicolon
> >>   in defining functions seems inconsistent and could be limiting as
> >>   things move forwards.
> >
> > Are you referring to the comma operator for serial evaluation?
> > That is taken straight from C, C++, perl, javascript and no doubt
> > other languages as well.
> >
> >      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma_operator
> >
> >
> > 	Ethan
> >
> 
> My apologies, apparently I was successfully using this feature
> without realising its correct syntax definition. Where is it
> documented? help comma does not seem relevant.

It's among the list of binary operators.
(In the PDF doc on p28.)

> 
> I was thinking the following two uses were the same thing. It seems
> the first is a separator, second is an operator:
> 
> gnuplot> plot a=1,b=2, sin(x)
> fn(x)=( a=1,b=2, sin(x) )
> 
> Peter.
> 
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