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Re: bug in InputForm (Mathematica 9)?

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• Subject: [mg132481] Re: bug in InputForm (Mathematica 9)?
• From: Itai Seggev <itais at wolfram.com>
• Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 03:30:10 -0400 (EDT)
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> Put the following into a notebook cell:
>
> InputForm[1]
> InputForm[2]
> "test"
>
> Evaluate the cell.  Only one of the InputForm commands produces output, and
> that output comes after "test".
>
> I am guessing these behaviors are not intended ...
>
> Alan Isaac

An old and well known bug, at least to those of us who work on Mathematica' s
input/output system. :)  Not as trivial to fix as you might think, because
doing InputForm[foo] in a notebook lives in this strange world which is half
command-line terminal and half notebook interface, and so wires can get
crossed easily.

-
Itai Seggev                              
Mathematica Alogirthms R&D      
Wolfram Research, Inc.      

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  • bug in InputForm (Mathematica 9)?
    • From: Alan <alan.isaac@gmail.com>