Re: plot ...007

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

On Wednesday 11 August 2004 06:54 am, mi...@ph... wrote:
> > 1) `.' all on its own as a valid number, equal to 0.0
>
> I propose that saying "." instead of "0." or ".0" should be an error.
> I don't think this abbreviation is supported by any programming language.
> This would solve the problem with "plot ..."

This is fixed (as an unintentional side-effect) by the string variables
expression parsing code.  If you can live with it for another few weeks,
you will instead get the behaviour:


Terminal type set to 'x11'
gnuplot> plot .
              ^
         invalid expression 

Or if you get more creative in stringing dots together you get:

gnuplot> plot .0..007 
         internal error : STRING operator applied to non-STRING type


> 3) keyword-less linetype and pointtype options, for compatibility with
>   pre-3.7 gnuplot

This has been a headache for me in trying to maintain order-indepence
of all command options.  I vote for removing this backwards compatibility
and requiring  "lt" or "pt" keywords.

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