On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 12:36:46AM +0100, Lisette Brillemans wrote: > Dear all, > > > When using GAP you have to end every line with a semicolon, as in C and C++. > This is allright, but it also has the effect (on me) that something like > SciLab or so is now very user unfriendly because there using a semicolon > supresses the output. > I have been using GAP for quite a while now (more than a year) but of course > apart from GAP you need sometimes other programs, like Pari for instance. But > also Pari has the behaviour that a semicolon suppresses output. This is very > unhandy if you’re accustomed to GAP.
As someone who use both PARI and GAP extensively, I do not think this is so much a problem: Under PARI/GP, you can enter % (or print(%) if you do not want to mess with the history) to displays the result of the last computation, even if the output was suppressed. Under GAP, you can enter a single ; on the continuation line to end the line if you forgot the trailing ;. gap> 1+1 > ; 2 There are more annoying differences between GAP and GP (notably, differences in the way the command history is handled). > Is it possible to implement a function or maybe a command line option to > change the behaviour of the semicolon of GAP in version 4.5. > Of course I’m only talking about oneliners. Alas, this would breaks the continuation line rules. Cheers, Bill. _______________________________________________ Forum mailing list Forum@mail.gap-system.org http://mail.gap-system.org/mailman/listinfo/forum
