[Maxima] Maxima strings reimplementation now in CVS trunk

[Robert Dodier]

On 10/23/07, Raymond Toy (RT/EUS) <raymond.toy at ericsson.com> wrote:

> > (%i8) asksign(x-y);
> > "Is  "y - x"  positive, negative, or zero?"
> >
> > Note that the question is now enclosed in double quotes.  This didn't
> > use to do that.  Is that intended?

Ray, I tried this example with current CVS Maxima + GCL,
SBCL, and Clisp, and I don't see quote marks around the question.

> Perhaps $stringdisp should be bound to nil in asksign?  Or maybe
> dimension-mtext should bind $stringdisp to nil?  Or something else?  Or
> maybe this is the new and improved maxima?

Maybe stringdisp was turned on by something outside of asksign?

> Trace has a similar problem.

Can you give an example?

best

Robert