Re: [ gnuplot-Patches-992149 ] String variables revisited

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Wednesday 21 July 2004 02:29 am, mi...@ph... wrote:
> > Regarding the discussion about late evaluation:  I would like
> > to _object_ to late evaluation.  Late evaluation will intruduce
> > much more problems in user space than it will solve.

Like what, for example?

So far I don't know of any bad side to this capability.
Sure, most code won't use it - but that is the case for many
features.  And the beauty of this way of doing things is that
it is actually simpler to handle the general case than it is
to add a lot of special cases.

> The late evaluation can be just a flag to "set label". That's where we
> expect this feature to happen most frequently.
> set label 1 sprintf("fitted values a=%g b=%g") at 1,1 lateeval

Yes, that would be possible.  But why only labels?
Why not plot titles, key titles, fit logfile names, and all the
rest?


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Ethan A Merritt