(fwd) Re: Discrepancy betw HP unix and mac versions
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- Subject: [mg7245] (fwd) Re: Discrepancy betw HP unix and mac versions
- From: tburton at cts.com (Tom Burton)
- Date: Sat, 17 May 1997 19:14:04 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Brahea Consulting
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
On Fri, 16 May 1997 18:33:17 GMT, in comp.soft-sys.math.mathematica tburton at cts.com (Tom Burton) wrote: Steven Christensen, This may be a duplicate. If so, I'm sorry. I'm sending this because I am suspecting that my ISP is fouling up again, so my previous post through the NG will not reach you. Tom --------------------------------------------------------------------- On 16 May 1997 02:49:35 -0400, stephenbou at aol.com (StephenBou) wrote: >I noticed a discrepancy in the way Mathematica for HP unix (version 2.2) >and the Macintosh 3.0 versions handle the % operator for a series of >commands WITHIN THE SAME NOTEBOOK CELL. > >In the HP unix version, these commands in a single cell, > >2+2; >x=% > >gives as output and assign to 'x': > >4 > In version 3, the behavior of two expressions standing alone in a cell, separated by a semicolon and a return, epends on the Form: InputForm: hese are two separate expressions, as if the semicolon were not there, yielding 4. StandardForm: These are two parts of a single compound expression, yielding previous result. So the difference isn't version 3 vs version 2 per se; rather, it's due to the fact the Version 2 doesn't have StandardForm, and Version 3 defaults to StandardForm. David Withoff clued the Mathgroup to this curiosity a while back. Note the implication for context changes, such as Needs[package]! Tom Burton