Re: Default fillstyle for 'set rectangle' is slightly wrong

[Dima K. <gn...@di...>]

Hi. Thanks for the context.

I don't entirely follow the explanation, though. You're saying that "set
style fill" kicks in when objects come from the plot and "set style
rectangle" kicks in when objects come from "set object rectangle"?

My general feeling is that breaking backwards compatibility should be
avoided at all costs, and we probably should leave this the way it is.
After all, it has been this way, and you hear complaints very rarely.

One thing we SHOULD change is the docs. The impetus for this thread was
that I was apparently looking at the wrong part of the docs, which told
me the wrong thing. If the interpretation above is correct, then "help
set style rectangle" can say

  The default values correspond to solid fill with the background color
  and a black border. Note that this default applies to rectangles
  created with "set object". Rectangles from data are controlled by "set
  style fill", and are empty by default.

Or something like that. Is that reasonable?