[Maxima] printing of floating point numbers and integers in Maxima

[Robert Dodier]

On Dec 19, 2007 9:46 AM, Richard Fateman <fateman at cs.berkeley.edu> wrote:

> I think that I could set a flag in displa that nformat notices,  that says
> "this call to nformat is coming from displa".

I dunno. That seems needlessly messy.

> Any other thoughts?

Whatever implementation eventually happens, let's call
the global variables integer_format and float_format.
There's littletogainby omittinganunderscore inalongname.

best

Robert