Services & ResourcesWolfram ForumsMathGroup Archive

[Date Index] [Thread Index] [Author Index]

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