Re: [PATCH 2.0.18] \x upgraded

[Karim BELABAS <Karim.Belabas@math.u-psud.fr>]

[Ilya:]
> I strongly disagree.  C-like code would 
> 
>   a) work with struct* instead of long*;
> 
>   b) would allocate new things by macros parameterized by the type of
>      the allocated thing;
> 
> thus would completely clear the code from the dependence on the
> details of internal representation of the PARI types.

Ok, ok, I'm not going to defend PARI current coding style anyway. I
basically agree with you [ and the initial patch was not rejected, but "put
on hold" until the long overdue official release is out ].

Another subject:

I intend to modify a bit your prettyprinter [nice job, btw, and it even
exhibited a bug in TeX output:         1
                             ... +  O(x 7) ]

1) make "prettyprinter" the name of the default prettyprinter (empty = use
current "beautified" format, which is ugly).

default(output,2) [or shortcut \o 2] would trigger it. This way it'll be
easier to disable/enable it without writing further user functions.

2) make it portable [ using undocumented try_pipe() and pariFILE type ]. As
is stands it will break compilation on a number of platforms (e.g WinCE
devices...).

Would it be OK if I included tex2mail in the PARI distribution ? [ I could
leave the URL at strategic places, but it would be more convenient that way
for casual users ]

Cheers,

    Karim.
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