On Fri 20-Jun-08 3:08pm -0600, Bram Moolenaar wrote: > Ben Schmidt wrote:
>> - No chance of getting sin(), cos(), atan() and log10()? I realised >> after thinking a bit further and reading some other users' posts that >> these actually would truly be useful. Surely they would only take a >> few minutes to implement, no time to maintain, and I would have a lot >> of use for them. I don't know how many users are like me, but there >> must be a few as surely programming is fairly closely related to >> mathematics in many ways. (I'd like exp() and log() as well, but these >> can be done with pow() and log10() by appropriately defining e, so not >> an issue. tan(), sgn(), rand(), etc. are easy with scripts, too, so no >> problems there.) > log10() is there. I don't see a use for sin() and the like. If you > really want these please come up with an example. It's useful to have a calculator available at your fingertips and to be able to create tables in Vim which are easy when the math functions are there. I see you have log10, pow and sqrt now. In a few minutes I added log and exp to both Vim and Gvim. In another 10 minutes I could have added sin, cos, tan, asin, acos, atan and, modeling after pow, atan2 - but I don't like the idea of needing to patch eval.c every time you make a change. Since there is virtually no overhead or maintenance, the question becomes why not just add them. If you don't have the time, others can do this - I, Ben or others would likely be happy to make the patch. -- Best regards, Bill --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
