Alias vs $PreRead
- To: mathgroup at yoda.physics.unc.edu
- Subject: Alias vs $PreRead
- From: JWENDEL at isdmnl.wr.usgs.gov
- Date: Thu, 18 Jun 1992 10:43:06 -0700 (PDT)
Do others feel that this is a regrettable development in the advance from v. 1.2 to v. 2.0? Or am I missing something elegant? It was very easy to include a line vln::=VeryLongName in a notebook or in init.m, rather than the clumsy $PreRead=StringReplace[#,"vln"->"VeryLongName"]&.