Re: [WWdevel] [WWcvs] pg: problemPreserveAnswers.pl

[Michael G. <ga...@ma...>]

Thanks Davide,

On another issue -- problemPreserveAnswers.pl  keeps $ from being  
erased in student sticky answers.
Does using EV3P  fix this problem directly in PGbasicmacros.pl?

I don't have a test case to work on to see if this issue is fixed in  
rel-2-4-patches.  If it's not already fixed then
one will still have to use problemPreserveAnswers.pl for this release.

Take care,

Mike
On Jul 8, 2008, at 11:41 AM, Davide Cervone wrote:

> I think this was a file that John Jones wrote originally, so perhaps
> he knows where they are used.  I am not aware of any that use it, and
> don't see any by grepping the libraries.  The error was probably
> introduced by me last summer when I was trying to encapsulate the
> initialization code and make sure it runs from the _init() routine
> rather than in the .pl file itself.
>
> As for whether there is a better way, currently this is the right way
> to do it.  One of the things that came out of the AIM conference is
> that there needs to be a better way to add features to a context
> (rather than just load a completely new context).  I have some ideas
> for that, but haven't completed the work on it.  After that, it would
> be reasonable to make this a "context patch" rather than a separate
> context, but for now, this is the right way.
>
> I think the name change to contextCombinatorics would be fine.
>
> Davide
>
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