re: mg11400 making MatrixForm the default
- To: mathgroup@smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg11515] re: mg11400 making MatrixForm the default
- From: blimbaum_jerry@ccmail.ncsc.navy.mil
- Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 12:22:05 -0500
As a newcomer to Mathematica and always irritated by difficult to
use
software , as I study some of the questions and answers thru
mathgroup
I saw one about having MatrixForm be the default. The answer
given
seems , to me anyway, to come right out of the clear blue sky,
something that would seem difficult to reason out and absurdly
complex. In my own attempt to always make things simpler to
understand, easier to use, etc. I wondered why couldnt there
simply
be a command in Mathematica that just says this:
MatrixForm/Default
Compare this to the answer given (basically abbreviated but just
intended to show all the statements involved )
MakeBoxes[Function[MatrixQ[Unevaluated[HoldAll[Form[GridBox...and
it
goes on and on ....]
I cant help it but my blood simply boils at this kind of statement.
With Time such an important quantity and math itself difficult
enough, why should Mathematica add more complexity to it?
thanks. Jerry Blimbaum US Navy Lab Panama City
Florida