Re: [Matlisp-users] two small issues

[Raymond T. <to...@rt...>]

>>>>> "rif" == rif  <ri...@mi...> writes:

    rif> 1.  I support Nicolas' suggestion that it would be preferable if REAL
    rif>     were not exported from matlisp.  (Actually, I also wish that
    rif>     :matrix wasn't a nickname for matlisp, because I need to also have
    rif>     my own matrix stuff (for sparse matrices, for example), but that's
    rif>     another story.)

Yeah, :matrix is probably not a good nickname.  I'll change this.  I
hope it doesn't break peoples' code.

    rif> 2.  Is there a reason that man (and therefore help) iterates over all
    rif>     symbols in a package, rather than just external ones?  I find this
    rif>     confusing, because I'll type (help matlisp) and see a function in
    rif>     the list, but that function's not exported.

Good question.  Don't know.  I think it should be external ones.  You
can find internal ones via apropos, so no loss there.

Ray